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Scherchen displayed a conducting technique as precise and economical as the motions of a tailor threading a needle. In the climactic passages, he laid into his work with a vigor that set his white hair flopping. The result was a finely tooled performance, full of the nuances and dynamics that are Scherchen's stamp...
Professedly unaware that his proposition was out of place, Italian Tailor Angelo Litrico, who has occasionally fitted the well-padded form of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, offered President Eisenhower a vicuna coat (free, no strings), later decided, after he was told about Bostonian Bernard Goldfine, that the offer was still good. "It is not insulting in Italy to present a vicuna coat," explained Litrico. "In Italy it is a good material...
...only the cardinals were busy with last-minute preparations. Bricklayers and carpenters were hard at work blocking off the north wing of the Apostolic Palace and partitioning it into small apartments; a tailor was stitching up papal robes in three sizes; cooks were laying in supplies to feed the participants in the elections...
Amid a torrent of abuse, the police whisked the head man, one "Professor" Arturo Rogelio Ferrari, and his students off to the station. It was quite a haul: two lawyers from Bolivia, a literature professor from Ecuador, a schoolteacher from Caracas, another from Panama, a tailor from Colombia, a seamstress from Peru, a mason frorrwltaly. All were following a six-month course that had started four months before. All lived in strict discipline. Reveille was at 6 a.m. to the strains of the Soviet Air Force march. The "students" studied Latin American politics and economics, the place of women...
...moving with the times," declared the sedate British Broadcasting Corp. as last week it relaxed the rule that TV announcers must dress in dinner jackets on nighttime shows. The new, unstuffed-shirt policy brought cries of alarm from John Taylor, editor of Tailor and Cutter, bible of the British needle trades. A BBC man in a business suit is a desecration, complained Taylor. "The BBC should continue to set an example by doing the right thing visually." But Announcer Michael Aspel put the matter in a different light. "There used to be a communal dinner jacket which we just passed...