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...nature of life on Madison Avenue: it is a combination of Sydney Greenstreet bullying Clark Gable in The Hucksters and Rock Hudson seducing Doris Day in Lover Come Back. In the public mind, the advertising business is firmly established as a grey-flannel world of three-Gibson lunches, three-button jackets, unabashed throat slicing and zany argot ("Let's smear some of this on the cat and see if she licks...
...list of suggested summer reading for freshmen entering colleges from Occidental to Williams. At Harvard it is recommended for a social-relations course on "interpersonal behavior." An M.I.T. minister uses it for a discussion group on original sin. At Yale and Princeton-where Salinger, like the three-button suit, has lost some of his mystique as he becomes adopted by the outlanders -the in-group popularity of Golding's book is creeping up. At Smith, where Lord of the Flies runs a close second in sales to Salinger's Franny and Zooey, 1,000 girls turned...
...proof that not all Harvardmen fetch up on the New Frontier. Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall ('14) assembled at a Capitol lunch eleven fellow alumni who are all Republican members of Congress. Flaunting their Cambridge-induced independence of mind by wearing their three-button suits, the old boys did not hesitate to bite the hand that had fed them knowledge. "A Harvard professor." proclaimed Ohio's Representative John Ashbrook ('52), "is an egghead who thinks the American eagle needs two left wings." The consensus was best expressed by New York's Senator Kenneth Keating (LL.B...
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales (Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Actor Karloff, in a voice as rich as a ripe persimmon, unwinds with "infinite resource and sagacity" the mad Kiplingesque logic featuring the rhinoceros with a three-button skin and the Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected "in more than Oriental splendor...
...guard of honor is formed up and ready for your inspection. Sir." A murmur was running through the crowd: "Oooooooh, the Queen." There stood Elizabeth, pregnant and officially out of sight, yet slim and pretty in a baby blue, three-button suit and a small white straw hat. The royal family whisked the President off to the great castle, then to a picnic tea beside shining Loch Muick. When Elizabeth whispered something in the President's ear, he said: "Oh, wonderful. Wonderful...