Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between cricketers has become increasingly absurd, as it developed that Gentlemen were making more money out of the game than were the Players. Ted Dexter, currently leading England in the Test series against Australia, is an amateur who rakes in the cash by appearing in testimonial ads for a shirt company, writing sports articles for the London Observer, and receiving royalties on the sale of cricket bats bearing his signature. This anachronistic citadel of privilege seemed near collapse last week. An advisory committee recommended a change in the rules that doubtless will be approved by the Marylebone Cricket Club...
...Prophets and the deeds of Brigham Young," lectures a Mormon, "does not manifest itself exclusively in enormous truths which can only be contained in the brains of university professors; no, it lives also in the sewing machines of people who yesterday had correct thoughts, certainly, but no shirt." Laxness' Mormon men take sly pride in the number of wives they accumulate; their justifications of polyga my are delightfully specious: "Woman's salvation consists in having a righteous husband, and there can never be too many women sharing in such...
Sidney Janis, the onetime shirt manufacturer who also turned to writing about art, has had in some ways an even more spectacular career. Janis is not known among his colleagues as a discoverer, but he has a good eye for properties that others have already started on their way. It was to Janis that Pollock finally went, and so did Gottlieb, Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. Last week Janis was the cause of a good deal of speculation with his big new show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster...
...some touching vignettes of Hess-playing with his four-year-old son for the last time; standing uncertainly in the door of his wife's room on the day of the flight, unable to confide his secret, but wearing, as a covert gesture of affectionate farewell, a blue shirt that she had given him and that he hated. Ironically, one of the most dramatic chapters concerns not Hess but his faithful aide Major Karlheinz Pintsch. Assigned by Hess to break the news to Hitler, Pintsch journeyed apprehensively to Berchtesgaden, his romantic belief in the heroic flight dwindling...
Cabot's philanthropic gifts ran to millions-they included amounts for scientific research on bad-weather flying and the uses of solar energy. But Cabot was not a man to toss money about thoughtlessly. "Godfrey," said a friend, "would give his shirt if he thought you needed it and you hadn't asked for it. But ask him for something and, well, he sort of got his back...