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Also thinking of his fellow men is Joe Bertagna '73, director of sports information. "Rather than ask for anything for myself," he says. "I'd like to ask for a hairpiece for Billy Cleary and a new tailor for Frank McLaughlin." Cleary, the varsity hockey coach, and McLaughlin, the varsity basketball coach, were not available to suggest appropriate offerings for Bertagna...
Reagan looks spiffy in public appearances, but his tailor, Frank Mariani of Beverly Hills, insists that he sometimes wears his suits (now $1,000 each) for twelve years. Aide Mike Deaver claims that Reagan's advisers had to pry him out of a 35-year-old topcoat when he first came east. A friend spotted him wearing a new tie recently and asked about it. Reagan said that he knew the narrow widths would come back in style if he kept his old ties long enough...
...bacteria usually spread by fleas carried on rats, raged through London in the summer of 1665, killing 68,500 people, a sixth of the city's population. Two-thirds fled the city, carrying the disease with them. Tiny and remote, Eyam seemed safe. But that September a village tailor received an infested bolt of cloth from London. Within a few days the tailor died. Soon dozens of others were seized by raging fever, vomiting, giddiness and excruciating buboes (swollen glands). But by the end of May the pestilence seemed to have run its course, with only 77 dead...
...good account," says Robert Fairchild, owner of the Putney General Store at the intersection of Main and Route 5. "He buys his wines here-mainly California-sometimes stops in for a cold drink after jogging. And," says Fairchild, emphasizing how general his store is, "I'm also his tailor." As it turns out, he makes John Irving's dress clothes, fitting the author's 40-in. chest and 32-in. waist with skill and elegance, and charging $300 for a suit that would cost $600 in Boston or New York...
...Casey's top deputy, Admiral Bobby Inman (who had been Goldwater's choice to head the agency), advocates more emphasis on "pure" intelligence gathering and analysis-calling the world as the agency sees it, whatever the conflicts with Administration policy. Other officials feel that the agency should tailor its reports to the decision-making needs of the President. Casey was seen by some as reflecting this view. When a CIA report failed to detect the degree of Soviet influence over worldwide terrorism that the White House is convinced exists, for example, Casey ordered the study to be redone...