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...Hollywood's best character actors, brogueish Barry (Going My Way) Fitzgerald, took to NBC's air last week on his first program. The new weekly series (His Honor, the Barber, Tues. 7:30-8 p.m., E.S.T.) he appeared in was fashioned of homespun, with an expensive tailor's touch. The character he plays is sure fire for cornfed philosophizing: a small-town judge who doubles in hair-clipping. The resemblance between this new series and another well-wearing job cut to the same cloth, radio's 13-year-old One Man's Family...
...street, so we bought most of them off for ten pesos. Then we tried turning off the water, but "the plumber had hardly left when our resourceful guests hack-sawed through the main." (At last report TIME-in-Manila still housed some fifty Filipinos. One is a one-legged tailor who has established his shop right inside the front door; another is an elderly gentleman whose sole possessions seem to be twelve 300-pound anchors...
Byrnes is a thoroughgoing Irish extrovert. Common sense is his guide; compromise is his method. He has never made any money; his wants are few (he once described them as "two tailor-made suits a year, three meals a day, and a reasonable amount of good liquor"). He is without airs, without bluff, and without any talent or taste for high society. But he has a courtly, Southern manner, and intense ambition. He is the man who would be President if Harry Truman died...
Gortatowsky's physical slightness is concealed by skilled double-breasted tailor ing; his keen-edged, taskmasterish mind is concealed by a lulling Southern murmur and a beatific smile. Of all ways to get ahead in the Hearst empire-beyond the first essential, obedience-Gorty chose one of the shrewdest: unobtrusiveness...
King George VI added color and dash to a tree-planting ceremony at Windsor by appearing in a new Scottish border tweed suit (three-inch redline squares against a light brown background) which cost him some 26 of his annual allotment of 48 clothing coupons. A West End tailor, moodily studying the cloth and cut, predicted that His Majesty's new ensemble would be a fashion setter...