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Another popular fabric -- a rich tweed -- comes from the improbably isle of Skye off the Scottish coast. Supposedly this tweed is hand woven on cottage looms, and hence is more "authentic" than the Harris tweed it resembles. Synthetic blends such as sharkskin, and stretch materials have gained popularity because they shed wrinkles and fit smooth...
Mainbocher is the master of the throwaway: a little tweed jacket that suddenly turns out to be lined with sable, a simple something buttoned up to the neck that unbuttons-if you just happen to feel like it-to reveal a splash of Schlumberger or Verdura in emeralds and diamonds. He was making the sleeveless sheath long before Jackie Kennedy made it a clich...
...Group is also a compendium of period ideas (the '30s) in politics, interior decoration, sex, art, child care and the management of husbands. There is Libby, devoutly literary; Dottie, the only Bostonian at Vassar who is not identifiable by tweed; Helena, impeccably educated from birth by a cultivated clubwoman mother; Polly, whose father has gone "loony" after the crash of '29; Kay, beautiful and serious, most responsive to the conscience of The Group; Priss, hereditary Vassar, destined for social work; Pokey, rich and horsy; Lakey, "the Mona Lisa of the Smoking Room," who has everything. Rich, beautiful...
...Espionage has no continuing star, just a succession of eager wolves in Bond clothes, and CBS's The Great Adventure will be a series of stories from American history, including Barney Oldfield, Civil War submarines, Sitting Bull, the crash of the dirigible Akron, Boss Tweed...
...Does that little lady in the tweed suit really run that big, noisy Long Island newspaper?" an incredulous New York banker once asked one of her editors. "Run it?" he replied. "Hell, she drives it!" In 1954, for crusading against labor racketeering, Newsday won its first Pulitzer Prize, and by this year it had grown into the twelfth largest evening daily in the U.S., with a circulation of 370,000. It grew fat on advertising, now carries more linage than any New York daily, and is second in the U.S. only to the Los Angeles Times. Said one former editor...