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Perhaps the least alluring covering ever devised for the female body, not excluding the Mother Hubbard, the feathers of the Harpies, or the St. Laurent trapeze, is the saggy, sorry habit of the British private-school girl. At best, the ensemble -long black woolen or cotton stockings, knickers that approach the knee, a vague navy-blue outer garment called a gym slip and a long-sleeved, high-necked blouse with a frumpy tie-makes her resemble a hockey goalie; at sorriest, a carelessly stuffed knackwurst. Cartoonist Ronald Searle immortalized the getup in his books on "St. Trinian...
...Donovan of the South End. Grandfather Fitzgerald was a U.S. Congressman and twice mayor of Boston. Honey Fitz's theme song was Sweet Adeline, his political creed was based on the sound premise that the strength of textile-making New England depended on everybody's wearing long woolen underwear, and he thought of himself as "the last honest mayor Boston ever...
...delegates who assembled in Rome last week, though members of an order that is organized like an army, wore plain black cassocks without sign of rank. The austere tradition recalls St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), who when he first took up a life of poverty insisted on wearing a woolen tunic, which earned him and his earliest followers in Spain the jeering nickname ensayalados, the men in wool...
...which have grown to 13 divisions, now account for 75% of all sales since Textron began its rapid diversification program. Thompson will be right-hand man to Royal Little, 61, peppery chairman of the board, who has run a growing empire almost singlehanded since Textron Inc. merged with American Woolen Co. and Robbins Mills, Inc. in 1955. Last March Little hired onetime Textron Director Thompson, a personal friend and executive vice president of Providence's Industrial National Bank, groomed him carefully to share the burden. Thompson's incentive: a "challenge to show that a banker can make...
Died. Joseph Buell Ely, 75, white-thatched Boston lawyer and textile executive (American Woolen Co.), twice (1931-35) Democratic Governor of Massachusetts, once (1944) anti-Roosevelt candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination; of complications six months after a brain operation; in Westfield, Mass. At the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Joe Ely nominated his longtime friend Al Smith, gave reluctant support to Franklin Roosevelt only after F.D.R. became the convention's choice. Ely charged that a "pink fringe of Socialists and Communists" surrounded F.D.R., and Ely's supporters averred that his unsuccessful 1944 candidacy was designed...