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...classic suit is back as an indispensable part of the college wardrobe. It looks as it has for years--straight skirt, sometimes slit, fitted jacket. Tweeds, small checks and dark colors are still prominent. For the game, for church or Sunday afternoon walks in the country, it takes wear and tear and still does not reveal whether or not the wearer has spent the afternoon wrestling at Dunster...
When he emerged, public opinion in Cell Block D had hardened against him; last December a fellow prisoner sidled up and slit El Sapo's belly open with a homemade shiv. It was a near thing, and for weeks El Sapo lay in the prison hospital with nothing to do but think. Finally he sent for the warden and made a momentous announcement: "General, I want to go straight. I am not going to kill anyone any more." Cell Block D, on the whole, was glad to hear...
Even before the credit titles are flashed on, Marilyn and Jane are on the screen in spangled scarlet dresses slit to a fare-thee-well above and below decks, hammering out a number entitled The Little Girls from Little Rock. From then on, the picture is so busy leering at Marilyn and Jane that it never gets around to being much of a picture. The result, while still fun, is a burlesque of burlesque, a kind of Minsky in mink...
...last, Agriculture Secretary Benson handed Nixon a penknife, and the Vice President liberated Hagerty by cutting a slit in his trousers. Nixon announced that the lure, formerly known as the "Hula Diver," would henceforth be called the "Hagerty Snag...
...last week, Sculptor John had finished two strong, roughly molded character studies done with the same sure hand as his best canvases. One shows his wife, "Dodo," gentle and clear-browed in golden bronze; the other is a salute to Ireland's famed poet, William Butler Yeats slit-eyed chin thrust inquisitively forward. Now John is happily working on a third, head of his daughter Vivien, which is still in the shape where the tobacco tins he thriftily uses as filler are not yet covered over...