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...older frame part in the middle, neither of which Cardullo gets up to much. "There's Quinn up there, a real estate man," he says. "And a photographer. Let's see, a beauty shop; a secreterial school, used to be, now it's a printing company. There was a tailor up there too--a fellow by the name of Raia. That was over the Grist Mill. I don't know what's there...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Square's Peg | 11/5/1975 | See Source »

...wife Nora, in two dusty rooms on the third floor. The place is difficult to find because of the way the stairway has to negotiate the boundary between the old frame building and the newer brick one, so Raia put up some signs he drew on posterboard, with Raia Tailor Shop and a pointing finger scrawled on them...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Square's Peg | 11/5/1975 | See Source »

...President's sartorial image has troubled his second-generation White House tailor, Harvey Rosenthal (whose father suited up Dwight Eisenhower). He is working, diplomatically but determinedly, to give Ford "a more presidential look." Rosenthal thinks that Ford, with his trim 6-ft. 1-in. frame and 37-in. waist, is a tailor's dream. But, in Rosenthal's view, the President's Middle American mod choice in clothes has been a bit too flashy for the White House. So next week, when Rosenthal is ushered into the Oval Office with a portfolio of materials from which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Coming On Like a Cocktail Cowboy | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...feel the atmosphere of frenzied Fenway, a national anthem which was sung by the kids in section 33 as if it was tailor made for drunks; the pre-game crowd chatter, the constant murmur of indistinguishable jock-talk, like a quick search for a station on the car radio...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 10/24/1975 | See Source »

Harvard, if it were part of "state action," would have to tailor its hiring, student discipline, and possibly future admissions to constitutional guarantees--meaning that reasons might have to be given and hearings possibly held for fired teachers, disciplined students and rejected applicants...

Author: By James I. Kaplan, | Title: The Law School and State Action | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

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