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...DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Giovanni's Wedding," an original five-act musical based on some of Kaye's earlier sketches about a shy Italian-tailor-come-to-America. Amzie Strickland plays the widow who breaks through Giovanni's shell and gently leads him to the altar...
...essential protein component of a person's cancer cells could be combined with an unrelated protein and injected, the patient's system might react by making three types of antibody, one against the foreign protein, one against the cancer factor and a third against the combination. A tailor-made vaccine could thus be created to make each patient immune to his own cancer. The Czajkowski theory is attractive and plausible to many researchers but remains unproved...
...Because it has arms." South America, as Gunther admits, is "difficult to generalize about. It lacks focus." The statistics are not always available-and when they are, they are not always reliable. In taking the continent's measure, Gunther confesses, he felt rather like the Emperor's tailor in prewar Japan, who was not permitted to touch the imperial figure and "had to estimate measurements while standing respectfully several yards away...
Fitting at 3 a.m. English tailor-made suits carry no labels, and the firms themselves seldom, if ever, advertise, prefer to prosper by word of mouth. The remark, "My London tailor's in town," quietly passed along among friends, seems to work wonders. J. C. Wells Ltd. sent its first traveling man to the U.S. in 1927 on a "prestige visit," was surprised when he came back with 100 orders; this year Wells's man, A.S. Richardson, brought back 1,000 orders, an increase of 200 over five years ago. Henry Poole & Co. has American family accounts going...
...only are American businessmen good credit risks ("Some even pay twice by mistake," marveled one Briton), but they are also overwhelmingly hospitable. "They kill us with kindness," protested one tailor, who finds himself invited out for dinner and away for weekends. In London, he might be invited in for a drink at most, and that only if he delivered a suit personally. In return, the Englishmen go all out to satisfy their customers. Traveling Partner Frederick Lintott of H. Huntsman & Sons, which specializes in hunting pinks and riding clothes, recalls vividly being awakened at 3 a.m. in his Biltmore suite...