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...style of dress is consistently tasteful. Girls often wear high heels and stockings. Coats with fur collars, small pins and wrist-watches, Camel's hair anythings, gloves, jackets with print linings, and pretty colored sweater sets are common. This style approves highly of boys with vests, pipes, and woolen scarves around their neck; and likes to dress up on dates...
...Minister of Power Richard Wood. When an outbreak of power failures brought a storm of complaints to the Power Ministry, Mrs. Wood helped raise at least some temperatures by posing for the Daily Mail in her cold-weather costume: a turtleneck sweater, fishnet stockings, and skintight, black woolen knee-length panties...
Looking Britishly baggy but craggily handsome, the gloomy prophet of impending automation, Novelist Aldous Huxley, 68, bravely entered the chic new world of fashion modeling. He consented to pose for Harper's Bazaar with a woolen-suited mannequin at his side. "It was no trouble at all to get him," said a Harper's editor. "A man that age enjoys having a pretty girl...
Peasants see the whole thing differently. Clad in filthy woolen ponchos, they were a humble lot. They doffed their hats and greeted me as "Doctor." But one who could speak Spanish (most know only Quechua) asked with surprising bluntness, "Are you on the side of Doctor Luna or are you for us?" Told that I wished to report how they live, they broke into smiles, lined up like children before a benevolent elder, and gave me a bear...
...automatically assumed had something to do with money or material goods. It was, therefore, a considerable surprise when R. Sargent Shriver Jr., brother-in-law to President John Kennedy and director of the U.S. Peace Corps, stepped down from his DC-3 in open-necked white shirt and grey woolen slacks. Making an eight-nation tour of Asia and Africa in preparation for actual Peace Corps operations, Sarge Shriver, 45, soon assured the Punjabis: "We come not only to teach, but principally to learn." As far as India was concerned, Shriver quickly demonstrated that he had plenty to learn...