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...University, Rabi argues that all scientists ought to be "oddballs." Their lives, he says, leave no room for such bourgeois considerations as suburban homes or Madison Avenue clothes: "Once you put on the clothes and cut your hair you begin acting the part." But Rabi himself wears well-cut clothes???and his hair is neatly...
...Paris were a small, select group catering to the queens and grandes dames of Europe. Even these moneyed customers consulted a couturier only when they wanted dresses for particularly grand occasions and were willing to spend as much as $1,000 for a brocaded ball gown. For everyday clothes???street dresses, afternoon frocks, sportswear? the grandes dames considered the little dressmaker around the corner good enough. But after the War there was little demand for expensive robes-de-style and no money to pay for them. So the couturiers set out to supplant the little seamstress around the corner...
...boys' choir of the Chapel Royal sang hymns. The royal family, present with the notable exception of Edward of Wales, bowed their heads in prayer, while the baby princess, oblivious of the fact that she was wearing her great-great-grandmother's clothes???the ivory satin and lace christening dress of Queen-Empress Victoria?continued to gurgle. When the christening of Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose of York was completed, the entire party adjourned to drink tea, nibble slices of a 90-lb. christening cake...
...hope but in despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes???so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...
...were conservative in their applause. The lights went up and they rustled their programs to find the condensed translation of the next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes???with one long intermission in which the bespangled audience?Anita Loos and Father Duffy, Al Jolson and His Honor the Mayor, and many another more or less notable who had paid $27.50 to be there? crowded out into the lobby to ogle one another...