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...entrance during a Hungarian diving exhibition. Suddenly, as a diver poised to execute a "three summersault half twister," the sport coat-clad clown pushed his way through the audience onto the pool deck. "You're too small to do such dives. Let me try!" protested Stone. He did. Sportcoat, tie, Stone and all plumeted into the water

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dyer, Hammond Break Records, Meet Hungarians at M.I.T. Pool | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

...sales ratio of sport shirts to regular-collar shirts was one to three; last year sport shirts outsold the regulars by 60%. In the same 15 years, sportcoat production has soared from an annual 700,000 to 8,000,000; output of slacks has grown fivefold, to 75 million pairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Brick-Red Look | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...film becomes unhappily serious whenever "the land of equal opportunity" is mentioned. The story, a continuous string of clumsy propaganda incidents, relates the seduction of a loyal party woman to the wonders of the West. The seduction is embodied in a handsome, disloyal Russian with a De Pinna sportcoat, a Hollywood apartment, and a stack of bourgeois magazines...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: Mississippi Gambler | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

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