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...came unhinged. "I wish it hadn't happened," Rose says. "It ruined that kid." But he adds, "I'm glad we won the game." Regarding comparisons with Cobb, Rose joins in few of the arguments. "I don't steal bases like he did, and he didn't wear a tie on the road like I do." It will be fine with Rose if people continue to think Cobb is baseball's best hitter as long as Rose has the most hits. He says, "We both loved to hit and hated to lose...
Just standing there in front of the microphone, Garrison Keillor has standing. Boy, does he. He is a big, weedy fellow, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, with horn-rims and a big shock of dark brown hair, snazzy in black tie and tails, red socks and galluses, and black sneakers with white stripes. When he is feeling rueful and self-mocking, which is fairly often because he is a shy man, he calls himself "America's tallest radio humorist." This, the listener is meant to understand, is the kind of hick distinction that small-town Midwesterners cherish, and Keillor...
Afterward, the couple was to take a tour of "The Treasure Houses of Britain," guided by the gallery's ubiquitous director J. Carter Brown (the only man to be invited to all the black-tie occasions) and Gervase Jackson-Stops, the show's curator. Like dutiful dons, the two men planned to give special emphasis to objects and pictures relating to the Tudor dynasty...
...about a show of hands? Is there any man, freed from the constraints of social and business dress, who would willingly put on a tie? And what about suit jackets, or even blazers? Is there anyone, given the choice and enough pocket space elsewhere, who would not surrender the weight of a worsted for the ease of a cardigan sweater? Where are those hands...
...Flusser's book is essentially a catalog of self-promotion cloaked as a sartorial guide, it could also serve as a reference text for the minutiae of men's tailoring. "I, for one, loathe conformity," he announces, before setting down the boundaries of permissible audacity. A tie may be anywhere from 52 to 58 inches long. Ties are ideally 3¼ inches wide, but those from 2¾ to 3½ inches are also "acceptable." There are seven collar styles that pass dress-shirt muster; 6 inches of shirt should hang below the waist; and the monogram--if there...