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...Tailor and Cutter, the trade magazine that acts as the sartorial conscience of well-dressed Englishmen, sent its man to survey fashions displayed in works hung at the Royal Academy's summer exhibition of contemporary paintings. To his dismay. Tailor's critic discovered that, clearly, the best-dressed man "hanging on the wall at Burlington House" was pinstriped Winthrop W. Aldrich, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, whose likeness in Savile Row finery was painted by famed British Portraitist James Gunn (TIME, May 10). Said Tailor: "If we reflect that our British reputation...
...Night (Paramount). "I'll scream for help," the lady protests, and no wonder. The Technicolored thing that has just waddled into her boudoir looks something like Louis XIV converted into a floor lamp. It turns out to be Bob Hope, cast as a sort of tailor's dummy who wishes he were man enough to fill Casanova's britches. And to the lady Hope replies (in a long, low-slung, sports-model voice that slides up to the listener's mental curb and honks suggestively): "I don't need any help...
...Britain, bonnie Prince Charles, 5, without half trying, won the nod from the trade journal Tailor and Cutter as the world's best-dressed gentleman...
Frederick J. Stare '47, who reported the discovery yesterday to a science luncheon in Boston, said it also might be the first step in tailor-making a chemical to prevent and control some forms of cancer...
Subject: Lieut. General Gabor Peter, about 50, onetime tailor, chief of Red Hungary's secret police. His job: extracting confessions from political prisoners...