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...University Tailor, C. T. Chin and Company, and the Harvard Bookstore are already operating in their new quarters, as the Cambridge Security Company cleared out 9 to 23 Boylston Street for Corcoran's complete remodeling and redecorating plans...
Valpey then selected six teams which he classified as the "field," and estimated that out of these squads two would rise to national prominence either through good personnel or a tailor-made schedule. The "field" contained Princeton (which needs backs), Dartmouth (lacking a left side of the line). Brown (short on ends and tackles), Penn, Penn State...
...Tailor-Made. While he looked for good men for the jobs at home, Harry Truman succeeded last week in filling two tough diplomatic posts abroad with men practically tailor-made to his specifications. To succeed Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow, the President wanted someone who would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk...
...Tailor & Cutter, British trade magazine, picked the Marquess of Milford Haven as "the Sartorial Year's Best Man." Anthony Eden won the "Order of the Dead Needle" as "the year's big disappointment." Even the Canadian press had described Eden as "distinctly shabby," and he had made the shocking disclosure that he no longer had a tailor. But to British tailors the most painful sight of all was rumpled Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: "We can think of no one else in a public position who seems to pay such little regard to his clothes...
...pulls all of these acts together is high-strung Max Liebman, 43, producer, director and owner of the precious package. For 16 years, Liebman has been in & out of the Poconos, Broadway and Hollywood (he helped tailor a number of the routines that made Danny Kaye famous). He thinks that turning out a highly professional show every week for TV is a "greater strain" than doing it for the stage. He was showing no particular strain last week over the news that he had a contented sponsor...