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Before the conference opened, Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied...
Even on vacation, California's Governor Earl Warren gained in political stature last week. He displayed himself, with his wife and four of his six children on the beach at Santa Monica, as one of the few top-flight U.S. politicos who is not a hilarious figure in swimming...
On Fifth Avenue, men wore what they wanted: house slippers and hunting jack ets, overalls, bathing trunks, mandarin robes. Columnist Lucius Beebe appeared in front of De Pinna's garbed in lilac butler's livery.
In an atmosphere redolent of honest sweat 180 palm-powdered athletes, clothed in bathing trunks, tennis flannels, track shorts and acrobats' tights, flipped around the gymnasium of Manhattan's West Side Y.M.C.A. like desperate fish. They were top-rung U.S. gymnasts competing in one of the oldest and...
But there were some guests whom Sheean was able to stomach. There was Winston Churchill, who "first became visible" to Sheean "in a red bathrobe over bathing trunks; he wore a large, flopping straw hat, and slippers and a cherubic grin." His first words were: "My dear Maxine, you have...