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Perhaps some of that cynicism developed when Latham was himself an undergraduate at Harvard almost thirty years ago. "The sweater still fits," he admits, "but I would hesitate to display the numerals. (Class of 1930). Coming from Brockton High School, "where everybody knew everybody," Latham entered the cold, impersonal atmosphere of Harvard during the lingering days of the Gold Coast...
...wear the arctic fox you have to kill it. Wear qiviut-the underwool of the arctic ox-pulled off it like a sweater,' your coat is warm; your conscience, better...
...Bogart, who runs Larrabee industries and is David's older brother, is working on a plastics merger that requires David to merge with a sugar heiress, so he plans to divert Audrey with some love-making of his own. After Bogie slips into his Yale sweater, takes the uke and Rudy Vallee records out of the closet, and goes courting, he has to determine whether the beautiful nymph will spend the rest of her life regaling him with choruses of La Vie En Rose, or be packed off on the next boat to Paris. Happily, the obviousness of this decision...
Londoners paid little note to the tall young woman in the striped dress, perhaps even less attention to her spectacled escort in the woolly sweater. But she was none other than Marina Mussolini, 19, granddaughter of Italy's late Fascist dictator. Marina was raised by her aunt, Countess Edda Ciano, after her father, Flying Ace Bruno Mussolini, favorite son of il Duce, died while testing a bomber that crashed in 1941. Now enrolled in a very proper North London finishing school, she stepped out for an early evening date (curfew on that occasion: 8 p.m.) with Sergio Valva...
...basic policies, could weigh the strengths, problems and needs of the nations and leaders he had just seen-many of them, such as West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Nationalist China's Chiang Kaishek, his friends. High in the sky he could also slip into a sweater and carpet slippers, read his detective stories, sip rye on the rocks, play the inevitable backgammon with Janet, or make plans to stop off for a swim some place where there were good beaches, say Bermuda, Venezuela or Ceylon...