Word: whipcords
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...Those who feel that tuxedos are old-fashioned are trying out the long, mandarin-collared Mao or Nehru coats. In Los Angeles last week, TV's Tonight Show Host Johnny Carson marched on-camera sporting American Designer Oleg Cassini's version of the Mao in dark blue whipcord. At a recent party given for Manhattan Pop Artist James Rosenquist, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Hoving arrived wearing one by Cardin in black velvet-and looked positively clerical alongside Hostess Ethel Scull's daisy-topped maxiskirt. Still, when Bonwit's advertised Cardin's new $150 Nehru blazer...
...first opportunity in three years, flew down to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's Thomasville, Ga. plantation last week for a brief quail-shooting holiday. Five minutes after he arrived, on the afternoon of Lincoln's birthday, Ike was togged out in a natty corduroy cap, green windbreaker, whipcord jodhpurs and (as a protection against the locally prevalent rattlesnakes) sturdy natural-leather boots. Under his right arm, the President carried two shotguns, which he had carefully selected from his own collection: a standard 20-gauge double-barreled shotgun and his favorite, a small .410 "over and under...
Eddie Chapman is a gay dog. International society intellectuals like Director John Huston admire his mind, and blondes his wire-and-whipcord body. He can keep a pub in fits of laughter or a softly lit drawing room at hushed attention. He is Mayfair's favorite criminal ("I'd like you to meet Eddie Chapman, my smuggler friend. Tell us about the jobs you've pulled lately, Eddie"). And low society in Britain pays him homage, for in his time, Eddie was the prince of safecrackers. After the war, it became apparent to all his acquaintances that...
Bicycle Chain & Razors. The traditional instrument of punishment was the cat-o'-nine-tails, nine lashes of whipcord, each about ⅛in. thick and 35 in. long, attached to a 20-in. handle. The cat was applied across the bare back-in recent times, in the presence of a doctor-after neck and kidneys had been protected against permanent injury. Maximum number of strokes for civilian offenders: 50. A milder alternative ordered by judges was the birch, a yard-long bundle of twigs, soaked" in water and whacked across bare buttocks...
Harvard will rock 'em in new uniforms the conventional khaki whipcord pants replace the black satins the Crimson wore last year; home jerseys will be crimson with white numerals, white jerseys with crimson arm hands and numerals will be used at Princeton; head-gears crimson with a white stripe running the length of the helmet...