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Sunning in a Bikini. Theories of sex, drug and witchcraft cults spread quickly in Hollywood, fed by the fact that Sharon and Polanski circulated in one of the film world's more offbeat crowds. Says London Celebrity Tailor Douglas Hayward, "They were both enormously popular in a trendy, fashionable, hippie world." They also habitually picked up odd and unsavory people indiscriminately, and invited them home for parties. "Roman and Sharon had as much idea about security as idiots," says Publicist Don Prince. "They lived like gypsies. You were likely to find anyone sleeping there...
...have an uncle over in Brooklyn who is a tailor and who looks like him, and if that would mean anything to you I'd be glad to bring him over...
Diamond Over Gridiron. Son of a Wyncote, Pa., tailor, Jackson, now 23, starred in both football and baseball in high school and won a scholarship to Arizona State, perhaps the only college in the country that prizes the diamond over the gridiron. In his sophomore year he hit 15 home runs and batted .327. He was drafted by the A's and signed for an estimated...
However, the school in 1812 still had an air of the comic opera about it. Its saltbox headquarters, "Long Barracks," half a dozen officers' houses, small hospital and tailor shop were surrounded by crumbling forts and ancient, rusting equipment. Its textbooks on warfare were outrageously out of date. Its acting superintendent, Alden ("Old Pewter") Partridge, punished refractory cadets by putting them in an 8-ft.-square pit with...
...lion of prides. The mane is wayward and unhatted. The massive head and frame are by Hogarth, the voluminous suit by Khrushchev's tailor. An excess of ergs twitches his head and fingers; the English hair and teeth, the cockney-of-the-walk intonations announce his presence in the densest lobby crush. In the past two years, the New York Times's Clive Barnes has become a public character, the most theatrical and prolific critic since the days of Alexander Woollcott...