Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altered to a size 12 in 1949, re-altered to a size 18 to take care of added weight in 1951, re-altered to a size 12 and then to a 16 again in 1952, and back to a 12 in 1953. It landed in the wash by mistake, suffered "considerable shrinkage," was cleaned several times, taken apart, stretched, pulled and realigned into a size 10. Last year a bottle of hair-tinting shampoo was spilled all over the dress. The owner's report for spring 1955: "Dress is navy blue with silver buttons, fits perfectly; fabric...
...Lichty cartoon: "A guaranteed annual wage, a guaranteed annual bonus, a guaranteed pension plan is fine with the employees, chief. Except they would like a guarantee you won't go broke." Lichty's one-panel situations take place everywhere, from the home (wife to husband: "I cook, wash dishes, keep house day after day and what do you do? Once a week you swagger in with a paycheck") to the college (president to professor: "Nonsense, Professor, you don't need a raise . . . You're too absent-minded to drive a car, too intelligent to want television...
...watercolors are on the whole less inspired, with the exception of Katherine Compton's bold, stylized head "Medusa" and Margaret Philbrick's "Willard Brook." Charles Demetropoulos demonstrates his usual skill in the treatment of reflections; a very wet wash catches the slick rain-swept pavement outside the "Museum of Fine Arts." Unfortunately he is not so meticulous in the overall composition...
...Charles River. And heavy clouds will cover Mt. Washington. No snow or rain is expected. Varsity Baseball vs., Brandeis 3 p.m. Soldiers Field Lacrosse vs. Tufts 2 p.m. Medford Rugby vs. New York 2:30 p.m. N.Y.C. Sailing vs. M.I.T. 1 p.m. Charles River Skiing vs Dartmouth noon Mt. Wash. Tennis vs. M.I.T. 1:30 p.m. M.I.T. Freshmen Lacrosse vs. Deerfield 2 p.m. B-School Field Track vs. Andover 1:30 p.m. Andov...
Captive Audience. In Pasco, Wash., arrested in a liquor raid on a nightclub, Adell Scott, 25, was acquitted of a vagrancy charge when he explained that he had been pushed into the club by cops rushing through the door to stage the raid...