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Shivers & Waistcoats. The Chicago Orchestral Association's directors were still not sure about that. After a series of musical fiascos in recent years, they wanted a "great" conductor to resurrect the orchestra's fame & fortune. Said one director: "The board all want him. He's a great musician, though I understand he's a little on the prima donna side. He might be hard for Eddie [Association President Edward Ryerson] to handle." There were other considerations. Said one symphony musician: "Maybe it's just as well if Furtwangler doesn't come. I understand...
...portrait of Commodore Abraham Whipple, the hard-bitten New Englander who won the first sea battle of the Revolution, off Jamestown, R.I. and later snatched eight ships by stealth from a British convoy of 150. Savage's Whipple, magnificently bedecked for the occasion in a scarlet, gold-braided waistcoat and cocked hat, looked duck-footed, paunchy, and tough as a saltwater Punch...
...only colorblind; its eye is astigmatic, twitchy and inclined to water. To TV, the most modish gown or the nattiest waistcoat can look like something that was spilled on the carpet. In self-defense, the televisers have been devising a fashion code of their...
...office. The hand-carved duck could be sailed in a bathtub. The sherry, grapes, cheese, and bread may be, as the circular puts it, "just the gift for midnight cocoa parties in the dorm." But of all these items, and such others as a cerise-and-yellow Tattersall checked waistcoat, a set of Chinese checkers, dominees and dice encased in tooled leather, and a solid-gold hunting knife for skinning the game in field or forest, fifty Harvard undergraduates chosen at random offer a negative estimate. In fact, they say, "Phooey...
Usually stoic John Harvard blushed scarlet over a "B.U."-lettered waistcoat as seven car-loads of Terrier students touched off kerosene poured in the symbol "BU" and stretching from the 50 yard line southward to the 35. Firemen and Yard police armed with guns arrived to find seared, black turf facing their hoses...