Word: semisoft
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...started playing in Omaha bands as a bespectacled Harry Potter look-alike and gradually came into the date-worthiness that has helped land his picture in Seventeen and Jane. Like the Faint, who mix effete dance rhythms with heavy guitars, he offers an alternative to hard rock by going semisoft: he balances orchestral arrangements and acoustic guitar with raw, wailing vocals...
...York, take off with his new car and a year's advance pay. Norman buys a mountainside in New Mexico, only to have a soulful Indian talk him into paying dearly for another thousand acres and a herd of Angora goats for the production of "Capricorn semisoft cheese," which goes sour before it can be sold. He is finally carted off to a Texas retreat for the mildly deranged. He might have written his poems in peace here, but mama, newly widowed, reappears to lead him off to a last encounter-with the only blond man in a town...
Died. John Manning van Heusen, 63, inventor of the first semisoft collar; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N. Y. He patented his collar in 1913. marketed it in 1921 with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk of the U. S. collar industry for infringement of patents. In the following year, however, Inventor Van Heusen was sued for $6,000,000 by John B. Bolton. For patents he had assigned to Van Heusen, Inventor Bolton later received $1,000,000. Other Van Heusen inventions: nonslip garters, nonslip...
...fashion in men's wear was thereby established. The mark of the businessman, the sign of his dignity, had been the stiff collar. Now the semisoft collar took its place on half the necks of the U. S. It was comfortable, and wives could launder it themselves...
...collar manufacturers whom Mr. Van Heusen had solicited were surprised at this quick sweep to popularity. So, no laggards, they at once produced semisoft collars of goods like the Van Heusen material. He sued them for infringement of patents and got $3,000,000 upon compromise. John B. Bolton expected to receive 30% of this sum for his work on the fabric. He got nothing, sued. Last week there was another compromise, whereby Mr. Bolton received more than $1,000,000 from Mr. Van Heusen...