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...carrot look," said Gimbels, by wearing big collars, rounded jackets, yoked shawls, standaway necklines and stoles. You get the carrot look by wearing slim, clinging skirts. If you will insist on full skirts, for reasons aesthetical or anatomical, you shoo the fullness to the rear and never wear more than one petticoat. It's [also] possible to look utterly 1953 by standing on your head...
Tonight's game, however, looks like a shoo-in from any angle. The Crimson, which tied B.U. last weekend, and played better than the Terriers in the process, takes on a Tufts squad that lost to B.U. 14 to 1 in one of its three games...
Funds for the construction of the building came from interest on a 17 million dollar bequest left to the University in 1902 by Gordon McKay, an engineer-turned-inventor who accumulated a tremendous fortune from the royalties on a shoo-making machine he designed...
...size of the crowds, the public library in Hutchinson, Kans. might have had the Mona Lisa on exhibit last week. "They want to keep looking," said the librarian happily. "We have to shoo them out." The big attraction at the library's annual all-Kansas art show: one of the first U.S. exhibits of an avid Sunday painter and onetime Kansas boy. His name: Dwight D. Eisenhower. On opening day, 1,500 people flooded the library's tiny gallery; by week's end, 3,500 more had come to see how Ike paints...
...says she was a "Himalayan Master" in a previous incarnation, promises to stamp out Communism "within nine minutes" of her inauguration. Though her party is "very loosely organized" and has only "a bare possibility" of getting on the ballot in Texas and Washington, Mrs. Jensen believes she is a shoo-in, since her horoscope is favorable...