Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opened his shirt, and pulled out a piece of metal. "You know what this...
...soared to their highest level since Korea. But there has been no dramatic drop in wholesale or retail textile prices. For example, the Agriculture Department recently reported that the price of a heavy cotton union suit has risen from $3.07 a year earlier to $3.14, a long-sleeved sport shirt from...
...color of their eyes (redder going out than coming in) and whether or not they wore beards. One notable exception: Painter Larry Rivers, no opster with a brush, who blurred the vision by wearing two neckties-one red, one blue-and-white-striped-on a button-down shirt covered with dime-size green polka dots...
...country of the bland, the one-eyed Man in the Hathaway Shirt was a sensation when he appeared in 1951. In those days he was a debonair White Russian, Baron George Wrangel, replaced a year ago by Colin Fox, a dashing British solo Atlantic sailor. Nonetheless, Ellerton F. Jette, 65, retiring this month as president of Maine's C. F. Hathaway Co., admitted that the original suggestion by Adman David Ogilvy to use an "injured man" as a symbol gave Jette the shudders. "Why stress an unfortunate aspect, such as partial blindness?" he asked. He soon found his answer...
...wear. "Not a soul around to wait on him. The salespeople think that with 150,000 customers a day, if they lose one it makes no difference." He grumped over the lack of service in the furniture department ("Looks like the Maine woods"), chewed out a salesman in the shirt department for not being quick enough. He had one word - "awful" - for some orange-colored vases on sale on the eighth floor, and viewed with disdain the incandescent ladies' stockings displayed on the main floor: "That's not my idea of what gals should put on their gams...