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...ties: his monochromatic cravats have inspired legions of followers. More difficult to explain are the recent designs of Grammy winner CARLOS SANTANA. Despite the fact that his taste in footwear has thus far gone largely unheralded, the singer announced last week that he would debut his own line of shoes. Brown Shoe Co. (makers of Buster Browns) will produce the Carlos collection for men and women; it will combine "cutting-edge fashion with multicultural influences." The results will be seen in department stores, if not Vogue magazine, this fall...
Back in the 1940s, when plain old X rays were considered high tech, shoe salesclerks would often determine children's shoe size by X-raying their feet. Never mind that the same thing could have been done with a wooden ruler. Fluoroscopes, as the X-ray devices were called, were promoted as the scientific way to guarantee a proper fit. By the mid-1950s, however, it was clear that many fluoroscopes were badly maintained and ended up subjecting customers--not to mention salesclerks--to potentially dangerous amounts of radiation. Soon the machines were banned...
Arnold Hiatt '48 established both Stride Rite programs when served as CEO of the Stride Rite shoe company. As an alumnus, Hiatt said he feels community service should be an important part of a Harvard education...
...know I'm not the first to face this quandary. Laurie Segal, a mother of five (ages 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) who lives near me on Long Island, New York, remembers the time one daughter, then 18 months old, spilled something on her new shoe: "She said in a little, tiny, low voice, 'Oh sh__,' and my husband and I blamed each other...
...time it was over, Reno had witnessed firsthand the devotion seen by INS officials in January, after they initially interviewed Juan Miguel at length and found that he was the kind of father who knows his child's shoe size and the names of his favorite teachers. He wanted Elian back, and he had no desire to live here. "Mr. Gonzalez and I do not share political beliefs," Reno said Friday afternoon. But "it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child." To do so, in fact, would...