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...Unwanted. At a protest meeting, 350 farmers and their wives passed a resolution demanding that the government "stop this kind of thing." When Mistress Matimba went shopping, the white ladies of the village turned their backs on her. A tailor refused to accept her husband's trousers for dry cleaning. When Patrick entered a bank without removing his hat, a teller ordered him out for failing to show the proper respect for white depositors...
...Long-distanced Sherman Adams at home and at work 43 times in a recent six-month period, a phone call about once every four days ("A friend you call whenever you see fit"), and that Adams called him a number of times. ¶ Escorted Adams to a Boston tailor shop, Faber & Co., to be measured for a gift "suit, or probably two," although Press Secretary Hagerty had stated flatly only five weeks before that Adams had paid for the suits himself...
...tone is set in the first story, Father Philip, by Maria Dabrowska. Young Philip Jaruga does not really want to become a priest, takes his vows because his parents, who own a tailor shop, see the church as the safest answer to the question of his future and a step up the social ladder for themselves. Though he lacks dedication, Philip is not without conscience. But his earthy hungers are stronger than any spiritual pull. He starts to drink, winds up with a mistress, and is finally crushed by the tragic results of his best-meant advice to a parishioner...
...Chairman, in respect to a coat . . . Mr. Goldfine has always been proud of his [vicuña] product. He makes a good product . . . The cost at his mill was in the vicinity of $69. The garment he made up at a local tailor. Now, Mr. Chairman, that was not an unusual activity . . . You are concerned, and I think correctly so, as to how such a friendship could affect the conduct of myself, an official, Assistant to the President, in his relations with men within the Government...
...free-spending Goldfine, once gave Goldfine a gold watch and at other times some of Mrs. Adams' oil paintings. But newsmen were more interested in a rumor (it was true) that Goldfine bought the Adamses a $2,400 Oriental rug from Macy's, and had a tailor make Adams a vicuna coat worth at least $500 retail (wholesale cost to Goldfine: about...