Word: slickers
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...outdone by the slicker publications, Women's Wear Daily has discovered Radcliffe. In two photo features last week, the clothes retailers' daily newspaper bubbled with excitement over Radcliffe's Young Naturals--their capes, high boots, textured stockings, and Greek bags...
...Porter's "Kathy's Date" is slicker, moving nicely through seven scenes in six pages. Sometimes the dislogue is a bit too cute--two boys and a girl are a "sand-wich"--but the story is about wild college youth, and necessarily interesting. There's also some--a little...
...very alacrity with which Kiewit's bid was accepted-Newhouse was not even offered the customary chance to top it-strongly suggested that local opposition to the city slicker had never really dissolved. "It's a wonderful way out," exulted World-Herald Executive Editor Frederick Ware, after the stockholders' meeting. "I can't think of a happier ending...
...achieve innocent, papiermaché grandeur with a cast of 130 and a dozen horses. The German dialogue is speckled with Texan ("Well, greenhorn"), and the overture invariably includes such incongruous Americana as Sweet Betsy from Pike. Even the summer rainstorms cannot stop the show. Said one fan, donning his slicker: "In the Old West they didn't stop struggling just because it rained...
...Digest's fabulous growth, its editorial formula has not significantly changed since birth. To Digest editors, the magazine is an "invention" that can be refined, improved and expanded-not changed. But since it reflects the growing sophistication of its sources, the Digest is now a notably slicker product than the one founded in 1922, on 4,000 borrowed dollars, by a Minnesota minister's son with an infallible instinct for middlebrow tastes. More than anything else, though, the Reader's Digest is a monument to DeWitt Wallace's reading habits-multiplied 22 million times...