Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serious Humorist." A mild-mannered intellectual who prudently wears a sweater beneath his suit coat, Jules Feiffer (rhymes with knifer) got well on Sick, Sick, Sick. This was not only the title of his book but also the wry tone of his work on such topics as frustrated love in Greenwich Village, the H-bomb tests, and psychosomatic illness. Many of Feiffer's best cartoons are not funny at all, instead sting with bitterness and poignancy, e.g., the numbing isolation of a small boy whose braying mother prefers his brother. "I'm against the misuse of power...
Pope John XXIII stepped into his black Cadillac one day last week and rode to the church of St. Paul Outside the Walls. (Along his route, the night before, policemen had painted out life-size posters of Paris-born Cinema Star Marina Vlady in a skintight bathing suit.) In a hall adjoining St. Paul's, before 20 surprised cardinals assembled to celebrate the 1,900th anniversary of the Epistle to the Romans, the Pope announced what may well be the most important 20th century landmark in the history of the Roman Catholic Church; the 21st Ecumenical Council, which will...
...sound racing smoothly about the dome's circumference. He can also make his sound tinkle and drip from side to side or leap in front of or behind an audience. Jacobs either uses taped works by other experimental electronics composers or pastes up his own random sounds to suit his taste...
...revenues from its other newspapers to finance the loss. Harte-Hanks lawyers argued that free competition, not a conspiracy, had made Greenville a one-newspaper town. Greenville, they said, is too small to support two dailies. Last week in Dallas U.S. District Judge T. Whitfield Davidson dismissed the antitrust suit against Harte-Hanks. Said Judge Davidson: "Justice Holmes has said that a man has the right to set up a shop in a small village which can support but one shop of the kind, although there may be one shop of the kind in town. It then naturally follows that...
...thought it was the wife's responsibility to see that the husband was well dressed. Furthermore, the women knew more about the materials used in men's clothes -and 52% of the men admitted it. Wives, Du Pont noted, accompany their husbands on suit-buying expeditions about half the time, buy half the men's shirts without even bothering to take husbands along. Though low-income husbands were most jealous of their masculine rights, they submitted more to their wives' opinions than high-income husbands. Most important for Du Pont, it is the wives...