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Verba is one of eight professors featured in the men's magazine's August issue in a segment entitled "The Tweediest Professors...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Sidney Verba Named One of Nation's Tweediest Professors | 7/26/1985 | See Source »

Tall and red-faced, George Belcher was one of the sights of London. For daytime wear, Artist Belcher chose the tweediest of hunting tweeds or else a funereal black cape and high satin stock. At night he preferred Victorian dinner jackets, lace cuffs, and ruffles. Thus attired, he spent half a century stalking likely subjects through London's foggy streets and second-best bar parlors. All his models, he liked to boast, were amateurs, "taken from life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kindly Eye | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...England he had outtweeded the tweediest Britons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Diluted Cheer | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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