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...Yale, Private Michael D. Koplow writes, "I studied hard, made a C average." When he left for the service, he told his mother "to be sure to take care of my charcoal suits and Brooks sweater...
...first glance the Council would seem to be in an advantageous position. Major letters have traditionally consisted of some combination of the colors black, white, and crimson. Thus the baseball team receives a black H on a crimson sweater, and the hockey team receives a crimson H, bordered with white, on a black sweater...
...farm outside Gettysburg, the thermometer stood at 25°, and the President's breath blew white in Pennsylvania's crackling morning air. He was the picture of the gentleman farmer, in crepe-soled shoes, brown slacks, soft blue sweater, suede sport coat, cashmere scarf and broad Stetson. From the house he walked 300 yards (the last 100 uphill) to a spot near the barn, there to receive a gift that any farmer would welcome...
...Sweaters & Philosophy. It was his concern about the lack of a sounding board for many "worthwhile ideas" that brought him into publishing. His father, the Wisconsin-born son of an Alsatian immigrant, built up a fortune in textiles and banking in Chicago, helped found and support the isolationist America First Committee. Young Henry studied at M.I.T., the University of Bonn and Harvard graduate school in preparation for a career in the family textile business. Later, he founded a successful sweater factory, and married the daughter of Philadelphia Banker Alfred Scattergood, a well-known Quaker...
...Sweater. Mary McCarthy has marked most stages of her life with a book or story or critical essay-not to mention several thousand yards of the brightest conversation ever to come from a pretty woman's lips. Her first book, The Company She Keeps (1942), told of a girl who suffers guilt by association of one kind or another with a Yale man, an art dealer, and, most painfully-because the fellow was no intellectual-in a Pullman compartment with a man in a Brooks Brothers shirt. The Oasis (1949) was a sailor's farewell to the remnants...