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Growing up in small-town Mason City, Iowa, Composer-Author-Lyricist Meredith Willson tootled his flute in the local band, watched the trotters at the county fair, pumped water for Saturday-night baths, was taught to beware of anyone who smoked cigarettes, especially tailor-mades. "Innocent-that was the adjective for Iowa," says Willson. "I didn't have to make anything up for The Music Man. All I had to do was remember...
...elegant $750 wardrobe, hopefully tailored to camouflage the equatorial bulge of Nikita Khrushchev (42-47-44), was delivered to the Soviet embassy in Rome for forwarding to Moscow. Items: a double-breasted charcoal grey suit, a single-breasted brown suit (with a fine red stripe), two overcoats, two pairs of size 9 shoes (with pointed toes), three felt hats. Sighed Roman Tailor Angelo Litrico: "I did my best...
...recent proposal to tailor admissions to the capacity of the House offers an oversimple solution to the problem of forced commuting. President Lowell established the House system as an integral part of Harvard education, but its ideal functioning should not alone be reason to exclude qualified candidates for admission...
Isidor Isaac Rabi, 59, shy, good-humored Columbia University professor of physics is chairman of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee. The Austrian-born son of a tailor, he was brought to the U.S. as an infant. In 1944 he won the Nobel Prize for discovering a new method of measuring and studying the magnetic properties of the atomic nucleus. "Some people," he says, "turn to science as a career to make a living, others because somebody they admire tremendously is a scientist. And then there are those who just can't help it-like me. I knocked...
Battling Bachelor. Halimi, who carries Cerdan's picture with him everywhere, is as tough as any of them. The youngest of 18 children of a poor Jewish postal inspector, he quit school at twelve and became a tailor's apprentice. Five years later he sewed himself a pair of green and red trunks, decorated them with a Star of David, and became a boxer. As an amateur, he was champion of France in 1953, '54 and '55. When he turned pro in 1955, he went back to Algeria to begin his career. Along with every other...