Word: weskit
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...rejuvenated weskit is making a desperate attempt to become part of the attire of today's stylish young man, and well it may. At any rate, there appears to be no Dior in sight who will, in the near future, set feat in the hearts of fashion wise Harvard males by upsetting the register of today's styles...
...eccentric comes to stay in a small British town. He is one of the harmless kind who imagines he is Napoleon Bonaparte, carries a rabbit in his old-fashioned beaver, decks out in a Dickensian weskit and cravat, and parades the streets in perfect weather under an open umbrella, followed by mobs of delighted children. Everybody calls him Napoleon, and is happy to have him around for laughs. The beauty of it is that Napoleon, in a well-juggled ending, turns out to be not so mad after all-or is he really much, much madder...
...form of an antique vestement has been accumulating momentum for several years and may soon be de rigeur. This is the weskit, a gaily decorated reincarnation of the banker's vest. The most popular of these is the tattersal (alternately colored narrow, criss-cross lines). Solid colors are definitely in dis-favor...
...graduating students. Dr. Conant delivered his farewell commencement address: speaking as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, he expressed the conviction that the European Defense Community would become a reality within a few months. Dr. Pusey, president of Lawrence College, sat with his class of '28, wore the crimson weskit that was the class uniform, but soberly eschewed the blue-and-white class cap. Pusey's class earmarked $10,000 of its $270,000 contributions for a James Bryant Conant-Class of 1928 Scholarship to be awarded "from time to time" either to a foreign student to be brought...
Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, after much pondering and consultation in his office (see cut), five weeks ago submitted a report to Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes on the much muddled problem of U.S. manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents. Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report. The reason for his reluctance became plain. Though many of the details had leaked out, the sharp, critical tone had not come through...