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Harry Truman's "bold new program" seemed tailor-made for Latin America. All 20 Latin American republics are "underdeveloped." They have been crying for economic help ever since war's end, when the flow of U.S. dollars southward slowed to a trickle. Would the "bold new program" solve their problem...
...ready-witted, poker-playing Pianist Solomon (full name: Solomon Cutner) is ready to display his wares more widely than he ever had before. A tailor's son, he was born in London "within sound if not sight of Bow bells-I'm a cockney all right." At eight, when he made his debut in Queen's Hall, his last name was dropped from the billing, and he never picked it up again. He played on provincial concert tours until he was 14-"until some people got interested in me and let me retire and study piano...
Chipp, "The Gentleman's Tailor," at 73 1/2 Mt. Auburn st., may be evicted Tuesday in favor of a higher paying prospective tenant according to Jonas Arnold, the manager. He will take the case to court, and, in the event of a loss, will move his haberdashery to his other Cambridge store, Tweeds Ltd. at 33 Brattle...
...Tailor's Dummies grew directly from such a sketch. It looked innocent enough until he began explaining it: "The children realized very much that these were bodies. The sight reminded me of a dummy my aunt had when I was a child, and that I always used to hit it, whirl it around. I wondered for a long time what I should put on the wall in the background. First I was going to make it a bandage ad, but then one day I saw it had to be the woman you see there, and I knew at once...
Tevye had no trouble marrying his daughters off; the trouble was in getting the right, husbands. When a rich old butcher offered to marry his eldest, Tevye had visions of living off his son-in-law. But instead, his daughter became engaged to a poor young tailor. "What kind of a world has this become?" asked Tevye. "A boy meets a girl and says to her, 'Let us pledge our troth.' Why, it's just too free and easy . . ." But Tevye gave in; he, too, had an eye for love...