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...just take it easy and don't you worry. You need some money or anything, you just call on me." Johnson did not need the money, but recalls that "the most comforting moment in my life was to see that man sitting there dribbling cigarette ashes down his vest." (To Johnson's children, Rayburn is still "Uncle Sam, the Speaker.") And in 1935, Rayburn got Johnson a job as Texas director of the National Youth Administration...
...bohemians: "Avoid what is called the 'ruffianly style of dress' or the slouchy appearance of a half-unbuttoned vest, and suspenderless pantaloons. That sort of affectation is, if possible, more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy or dude...
...years of steeping himself in antiquity, Britain's Novelist-Poet Robert (I, Claudius; The Greek Myths) Graves had never been to Rome. Last week, resplendent in a white formal evening shirt, pink tie and embroidered gold vest, Traveler Graves, 62, long based on the Mediterranean isle of Majorca, finally made his first appearance on the scene of many of his writings. To the dismay of Roman antiquarians, he refused to go near the Colosseum or other ruins: "Why should I visit ruins when the shops are so good?" In high good humor, he recalled a fanciful previous visit...
...dice game when interrupted at any particular moment. The high point of the series is a show on the new field of topology. Using every sort of trick-from figuring out how a boy can cover his newspaper route without ever retracing his steps, to taking off his vest without removing his coat-Baird gradually gets across the idea that topology is merely "the study of what remains unchanged in a thing," even when the shape of the thing has been completely altered, short of being torn...
...upsetting to travel about this large country to ask what they think a Harvard man really is. Around the corner from the House an outspoken teenager from East Boston will utter a few expletives and say that all Harvard men are, to put it mildly, snobs who wear vests and have ridiculous accents. And in the Midwest a mild fellow will strongly declare that Harvard is filled with shabbily dressed men who have wild ideas and long hair. While these interpretations are oversimplifications, these two types do represent the spectrum of Harvard College. Both the Harvard man with the vest...