Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank Boykin proclaimed indefatigably, "everything's made for love." And during his 28 years as U.S. Representative from Alabama, omnia vicit amor. Wrapped perennially in a white linen suit, his huge (250 lbs.) frame topped by a theatrical thatch of silver hair, he looked like a cartoonist's Claghorn-and spent money like a Dixie Gatsby. At one celebrated Boykinalia in 1949, nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming...
...Teeny-Weeny Wonder." In Tokyo's nightspots there are girls to suit every male personality. Ladies' Town on the Ginza assuages the married man's conscience (and concupiscence) with girls dressed in long, satin bridal gowns and lacy veils; the Aho (Idiot) Club in the Ueno District outfits its girls in crisp white nurses' uniforms and pale blue caps. There are bars with girls in sailor suits (to conjure up memories of the Imperial Navy), others where the intellectual clientele is served by misses who have read every literary quarterly...
...Peninsula, the young bride decked out in her gifts from the groom: a back pack and hiking boots. After four months of marriage, the young bride panted: "I'm taking vitamin pills." Now, two years later, Joan Martin Douglas, 25, can't keep up any longer. Filing suit for divorce from U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 67, Joan charged the old outdoorsman with "cruel treatment and personal indignities which have rendered plaintiff's life burdensome." The justice, facing his third divorce, offered no dissenting opinion...
Transamerica was set up in 1928 by A. P. Giannini as a vehicle to expand his California-dominating Bank of America across the U.S. The company beat an antitrust suit in court, but Giannini later decided to divorce Transamerica from the bank anyway. By 1956, the separated company had built itself into a holding company that controlled 23 banks in eleven Western states, had also spread out into insurance and a few other fields. Congress ended all that with a law (aimed particularly at Transamerica) that forced the company either to get out of banking or cease all its other...
...Undarned Suits. His memoir suggests that he came by his views the hard way-by a tough and unsentimental study of himself. Here is his account of himself at 20: "I moved from one fitful job to another, improvisations without issue; dreamed my sumptuous dreams of canopied barges on the Nile and throbbing Bentleys in Biarritz; woke with strangers in dank attics; nursed the one undarned, too tightly fitting suit-and plotted my escape. Try as I may, I cannot bring into focus the young man of 20. If we were to meet today, we would have little...