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...would have written sooner to thank you for Jake Brackman's sketch of me but I have had my hands full trying to persuade by tailor not to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never owned, or even been tempted to rent, a suit "with wide stripes and wider lapels." I must also, in justice to past employers for whom I retain a deep and grateful affection, correct his story that I started my own news-letter because I was "tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print." On the contrary I started my Weekly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Heretic Hails JRB | 5/11/1965 | See Source »

...women agree. "Any girl with a good figure will have a man around to protect her," sniffs a Johannesburg model. Other women protest that a bra holster makes them appear top-heavy on the portside. To which Britain's staid Tailor & Cutter added archly: "A couple of hand grenades would seem more esthetic." Joubert and Taylor are unworried. They have nothing to fear but the topless dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: I Dreamt I Was in Jo'burg | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Assistant Attorney General Doar is tailor-made for what Strategist Marshall says is the Justice Department's future civil rights task-"a straightforward matter of litigation, requiring primarily administrative skills, hard work and good lawyers." In short, the job now calls for a man who sounds exactly like John Doar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Changing the Guard at Justice | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Johnson's decision took Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey by surprise. Assuming that Johnson would wear the traditional cutaway, Hubert had already dropped by to see Washington Tailor Sam Scogna and get measured for the full-dress attire. Sam, forgetting that only spools rush in where tailors fear to thread, told everybody that the Vice President-elect was his customer for an inaugural outfit. Next thing Humphrey heard was a report that Tailor Sam was making a $175 cutaway for him. Making? cried Humphrey. I'm only renting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inauguration: The Man in The Business Suit | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...that matter, was Angelo Litrico, a non-Communist tailor in Rome. Alas for Angelo, he was busy making two new suits for Khrushchev the day of his ouster. A single-breasted black and a double-breasted grey, custom-made for Nikita's projected visit to West Germany. The folks on No. 3 Granovsky Street may never get to see them, nor the tailor his money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: How Nikita & Nina Came Back To No. 3 Granovsky Street | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

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