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...designer to watch was Ken Scott, 41-year-old expatriate Texan who lives in Milan. For strolls by the sea, he suggested a silk T shirt, Bermuda shorts and knee-sock ensemble in a Japanese print. His silk-jersey print dress with a short, short skirt and flowing sleeves had one American fashion writer predicting that it will become "the new status dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: La Dolce Vista | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...step most probably have yet a little of the militant feminist in them, which grows red-eyed at the very thought of a masculine prerogative. The number of libraries in or near the Yard is somewhat impressive and can certainly accommodate all stranded 'Cliffies without the help of Sweat Sock Elysium. Therefore, again, I am sympathetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWEAT SOCK ELYSIUM | 1/26/1966 | See Source »

...Sock & a Bomb. Obviously Hayes is a quick study. From End Coach Red Hickey, he has already learned that his method of pass receiving was wrong. "I used to jump and catch the ball at my stomach," he says. "Mr. Hickey taught me that I gotta catch the ball on the run, or the defensive backs are gonna smack me good." From the Cowboys' all-pro end, Frank Clarke, Hayes has learned the proper way to catch "the bomb"-the high pass. "I used to catch it from the front, with my thumbs pointed together. Frank taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: Cowboy from Olympus | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

With a wham and a bam, a sock and a pow, Director Edwards' accumulation of cliches explodes around the world, pausing for Curtis to demonstrate his torso and his skill with the epee, and for Lemmon to do a tedious bit as a faggish Mittel-European prince. No pastiche of the old masters would be complete without a pie fight. This one is the Ben-Hur of pie fights-it splatters more than 2,000 real cream pies of assorted flavors, and took five days to shoot. The scene even has a plot: Will Tony Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sock & Row | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...including bowling-and softball-league shirts for many who can hardly wait to get out of the hall and on to an avocation that is as often as not company-sponsored. (Another style note: for reasons that might require the services of a mass psychologist, the old white cotton sock has given way in Pittsburgh to one of cardinal red.) No local leader will schedule a meeting in conflict with a really popular TV program unless he deliberately wants to keep attendance down. Observes Sidney Lens: "The members still have a loyalty to the union. It's the loyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: UNION LABOR: Less Militant, More Affluent | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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