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Clothes, or the lack of them, naturally obsessed the fashion-conscious French amorists. During the 14th and 15th centuries, women wore disconcertingly low-necked dresses, lacing their breasts so high that "a candlestick could be placed upon them." Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, pioneered a bare-to-the-waist style at court and also stopped the show at the palace by affecting a kind of girl-in-the-Hathaway-patch masking of one breast. Brazenly posing as a Madonna, she managed to have this piquant fashion immortalized by Painter Jean Fouquet...
...Time and again we hear spurious assertions that America's defenses are weak, that her economic expansive force can be sustained only by federal spending, that her educational and health efforts are deficient. In this kind of preachment political morticians are exhibiting a breast-beating pessimism in the American system...
...both Dow-Jones and N.Y. Stock Exchange tickers, where Billy speculates in regal solitude (Rose began his career at 17 as a shorthand stenographer for that dean of speculators, Bernard Baruch). Shrugging back the shawl collar of his bulky white cardigan to expose the embroidered red "B.R." on the breast of his black polo shirt, Rose said he hoped to fill the empty places in his mansion with more antique furniture. As for his garden: "I may glass that in and build a swimming pool, if it's not too expensive, for warming my old bones. Nobody pampers...
Navy has five top-flight swimmers-Ashley Norfleet, in the free-style; George Worthington in the butterfly; Arnold Kieban in the backstroke; Pat Taft, intercollegiate 100-yard breast stroke champion; and Colonel (sic) Griffin, who last year set the American 200-yard breast stroke record, giving Navy an added versatility in that event. (Griffin has swum the individual medley in 2:12, far ahead of any of the varsity's performers...
Coach Brooks said the opening medley relay is crucial; there the only sure swimmers are Doug McCartney in the breast stroke leg of the race and Elizalde in the fly. The only other definite personnel are captain Koni Ulbrich and Fred Cooley in the short, free-style sprints...