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...time it takes to adjust a girdle, the nation's advertising writers last week joined the fashion revolution begun by couturiers and fashion magazines (TIME, Aug. 18). A year ago Manhattan's Lord & Taylor had lyrically praised suits with "new bulky tops" and short-skirted hip-hugging dresses that had matured into "a faultless anatomy of design." Last week L. & T.'s ads cried: "Remember those shoulders out to-here, those hazardous days of the short tight skirts...
...Tenants were put under pressure to sign leases with the 15% boost. After getting a letter from his landlord suggesting a 15% increase, an Atlanta Constitution editorial writer wrote: "Oh, it's all very voluntary of course. I can either agree to the increase or adjust myself to life in a tree. You can't bluff me, I should have said, it's a free country. I'm a citizen, I know my rights. O.K., I said, where do I sign...
...cameraman shouted for everybody to "hold it for a minute." Then the laughing ladies and their officer escorts again started up the aisles. Captain Watanabe waited patiently for them to pass. "I was to accompany Admiral Yamamoto that day," he said, "but I was ordered to remain behind to adjust some tactical matters-unfortunately...
...Sometimes, according to Author Natalie Anderson Scott, he was capable of "smiling humorously," but more often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth." He swindled, stole, played fast & loose with girls-among them an artist named Kay, and Dolores, who wore sables and "went around adjusting herself" (Dolores could "adjust herself in a thrice"). Jimmy peddled dope, knifed his sister, beat up his mother, hocked the family goods. But his mother loved him dearly, and his brother Ed, a priest, thought he had "a finer than average" spiritual nature...
Police promised a week of leniency to local motorists while they adjust themselves to the gadgets, before they clamp down on violators. First offenders will merely be given a warning. After that, there will be successive penalties of one, two, three, and five dollars for each offense...