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...down to brass tacks. At the Inn Square Men's Bar (354-8458) this week, True Culture plays reggae tonight through Saturday, Spider John Koerner plays, I am told, a blue guitar (lest you think me affected, I mean a guitar colored blue) on Sunday, and Ina May Wool plays hard to get Monday through Wednesday...
Among other items in nationwide short supply and fierce demand in this killing winter are woolen underwear, blankets (wool and electric), flannel shirts, wool socks, parkas, mittens, gloves, mufflers, ski pants, goggles, hand warmers, car batteries, weather stripping, calking guns, firewood, woodburning stoves, electric heaters, and radios with the weather band that tells you how frightful today is going...
Dressing warmly is mainly a matter of insulation-of trapping body heat. Loggers who work Maine's north woods wear up to ten layers of loose-fitting clothes. Next to themselves, they like old-fashioned woolen union suits best. They wear heavy wool pants and, topside, pile on sweatshirts, sweaters, flannel shirts, insulated vests, jackets and parkas. They encase hands in leather mittens with wool liners, feet in two pairs of socks and heavy felt liners and rubber boots that do not leak heat. Some people sandwich a plastic bag between two pairs of socks...
...residents and all other serious outdoorsmen know well, simply heaping on clothes brings on the sweats-and the sweat can swiftly freeze. The best bottom-line investment (for about $18) is a thermal -meaning it traps the air-underwear with an inner lining of moisture-absorbent cotton topped with wool, cotton and nylon. On top the urban survivor wears a flannel shirt, a cashmere sweater or a goose-down vest, a tweed jacket, a muffler, mittens (which allow fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train to town will...
During his fireside chat last week, Carter introduced what may prove to be the most memorable symbol of an Administration that promises to make steady use of symbolism-the beige wool cardigan, a favorite of his. Carter wore the sweater at dinner with Rosalynn, Amy, Sons Chip and Jeff and their wives. In the library after his meal, Carter asked TV Adviser Barry Jagoda and Adman Jerry Rafshoon what they thought of the cardigan. They told him to check it himself on the TV monitor. All agreed it looked fine. Then Carter rehearsed his talk before the TelePrompTer (which...