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Princeton fosters an uncanny conformity among its undergraduates, evident from the moment a visitor walks onto the campus. They dress in one of the two Nassau costumes--tweed or dungarees and old sweater. They share a quiet enthusiasm for Princeton. It is this conformity which allows Munson to run his paper the way he does...
...Blue Suitcase. In 1953, at a party in Manchester, Vt., Salinger met Claire Douglas, an English-born Radcliffe student. She was unimpeachably rightlooking, extraordinarily pretty, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt. Claire was fascinated by the intense, 34-year-old author, and visited him several times in Cornish. She soothed her family with a story that showed close attention to the master's style: Salinger lived, she said, with his mother, sister, 15 Buddhist monks, and a yogi who stood on his head. The girl discovered mysticism. "She was hung on the Jesus Prayer." recalls her brother Gavin...
...same age. "Let's quietly disappear and start again together," said Jane's perennial fiance, Georgie, in the farewell strip as the couple headed for marriage. At last, Jane was decently clad: not only did she wear a swim suit for her finale, but a sweater as well...
...catch a train, but I was afraid that someone would steal your bike.'" At the movies, she adds, "I usually put it where the person in the box office can see it. She's delighted to keep an eye on it." A motorcycle cop once gave Sweater Designer Pamela Colin a personal escort as she wove through dense traffic with boxes of sweaters strapped to her baggage rack. George Franklin Jr., executive director of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, even pedals in dinner clothes. And Textile Designer George Roper takes his bike up in the elevator...
...were given letters; Blake ranked sixth. In his junior year, two guards got letters; Blake was third. "The experience of just barely missing my letter for those two years was almost a trauma," Blake admits. But senior year made up for it-he got a large P for his sweater and was picked for several all-Eastern teams. "I suppose I can say that persistence is one of my qualities-it was certainly true with football," says Blake. "And I probably have more ambition than most people...