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...beagle pet (Little Beagle Johnson). Lyndon Johnson would rather be caught dead than in a suit costing less than $200. Indeed, when he suffered his far-from-mild 1955 heart attack, the question arose about whether to cancel orders he had put in with his San Antonio tailor for a blue suit and a brown one. Muttered Lyndon, who knew that doctors gave him only a fifty-fifty chance to live: "Let him go ahead with the blue one; we can use that no matter what happens...
...into line by a new handbook that spells out once and for all the color and cut of the proper Oxonian's robe. Compilers of the authentic landbook: meticulous Ralph E. Clifford, lead clerk in the University Registry, and elegant Dennis R. Venables, co-proprietor of one Oxford tailor shop and Dartner in another...
...choose patterns and shades for each degree, Clifford and Venables spent a year poking through ancient records and sifting the lore of tailors along High Street. Bound in leather, handwritten on parchment and illustrated with swatches of material, their specifications are stored for the ages in the University Archives. One fiat of the new book: nylon fur is out. Sniffs Gentlemen's Tailor Venables: "Any fur on an academical hood ought to come from an indigenous animal...
Chief conspirator seemed to have been Hyung Kim, a 35-year-old tailor who before leaving closed his store and sent a mimeographed letter to all his customers saying he was not coming back. Police found an empty pistol holster in his home and an air navigation chart. With him went his pretty 21-year-old wife (or mistress). Three of the conspirators had fought for North Korea during the war, had been captured, "renounced Communism," then enlisted in the South Korean army. They had all been in touch, said the police, with one Kang, "a North Korean agent with...
...doctor can get there. A unique study of 113 men and women of five generations in one family-compiled by Dr. William L. Gould of Albany, N.Y. and reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine-shows that in an occasional case fibrillation neither causes disability nor shortens life. A tailor who immigrated from Russia in 1891 (and later brought over his parents and ten brothers and sisters) fibrillated for at least 38 years but was fully active until his death at age 94. His father fibrillated at least three years, lived to 84. In all, 22 members of the family...