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Musicomedy Star Barbra Streisand, 22, is big for feather boas and faded satin negligees from the thrift shop. Funny girl. She also has a weakness for $1,200 South American skunk furs, for man-tailored suits that she designs herself, and other Barbrous whatsits that make fashion's top camp followers whinny for joy. As a walking encyclopaedia of haute kook, she was nominated for the Encyclopaedia Britannica's 1964 Book of the Year by Fashion Consultant Eleanor Lambert, who called her the embodiment of "the nonconformist spirit." In Los Angeles, though, a couturier who calls himself...
...THRIFT: "Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away...
Learning related facts, pupils are introduced to maps in kindergarten instead of waiting until the fourth grade to grasp what the whole earth looks like. They are told that Norseman Leif Ericson discovered the New World, not Columbus. For years, social-studies courses pounded away on the virtue of thrift, but the council program realistically recognizes that students know their own families rely heavily on credit, and teaches that both saving and spending have a place in the usual household economy...
Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 71, is lucky to be a Yankee: he comes from a state where the locals appreciate thrift. His mail clerk, Mrs. Judy Sherbert, spent a year winding the ties that bind the Senator's five daily postal consignments. Some folks might conceivably think her behavior a trifle odd, but not "Salty." He knows whereby hangs a tale to tell the voters of Massachusetts, so he called in photographers and bowled them over with Judy's 9¾-Ib. round of twine. "Let's get the ball rolling," he twanged...
Descending from a Pan American thrift flight in Honolulu, Lynda Bird Johnson, 20, was nearly strangled by a nest of welcoming leis. "I can't see," she said plaintively. They kept coming. "I can't stand another one." So it went, for the eight days of her Hawaiian visit, through speech giving, sightseeing and skindiving: an embarrassment of riches, from feathered gourds to a monkeypod tray, and an even more embarrassing swarm of aloha photographers. She banned one from a luau for snapping her in a bathing suit, wailed at others, "I can't stand...