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...said, "is creating a handsome and responsible image of the American man." Ideally, she continued, men's styles should combine "Italian flair, classic British sobriety and American dash, functionalism and fit. In our President we have the man who fits this look perfectly." Only Irving Heller (sometime tailor for Harry Truman) demurred. He approved of the President's taste in shirts ("He has changed his collar space") but insisted that Kennedy's jacket buttons are "still...
...mature weight has generally varied from 220, which he calls "slim," to an alltime high of 284. His neck size is 19, and the nose cone has yet to leave Canaveral that could not parachute back to earth dangling from one of Jackie Gleason's shirts. His Manhattan tailor flatteringly but fairly describes him as "the best-dressed stout man I know-above conservative, not afraid to look well-dressed." Gleason orders about a dozen suits a year, paying as little as $285 for a little grey nothing, sometimes going exotic with such items as a cashmere trench coat...
Curiously, Sutherland came to Donizetti and Bellini from a background in Wagner, a reversal of the process that usually finds a singer moving from lighter to heavier roles. Sydney-born, the daughter of a tailor, she concentrated at first on Wagnerian roles because "I had the build for it" (she stood 5 ft. 9 in., weighed 224 Ibs., now weighs 170). Eventually, on the advice of her husband, Australian Pianist Richard Bonynge, she decided that the bel canto repertory was where she belonged. She put in seven years at Covent Garden while developing the voice that would lead...
Pinter owes much of his success to his sense of theatrical immediacy, acquired during twelve years as an actor. Darkly handsome, with black curly hair and threatening eyebrows, he was born in the grimy East End of London, the only child of a Jewish tailor. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, where he admired an eccentric master with a wild passion for the theater who liked to throw inkwells out the window and strode the halls shouting lines from Othello...
...Make a Profit." "I've always been selling things," bubbles Bloom, a tailor's son who quit school at 16, now wears a stubble beard to cover his youth. As a Royal Air Force enlisted man, he started a bus service from his base to London that underpriced the R.A.F.'s own buses. When the bus line protested in court, the judge upheld Bloom with a declaration that has since become Bloom's motto: "It's no sin to make a profit...