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...letters, answering phones, drafting statements. When Johnson announced his presidential candidacy, Moyers packed his family off to Texas, moved into the basement of the Johnson home, for the next five months was rarely out of L.B.J.'s sight. During the Democratic National Convention he slept in an outsized closet in Johnson's suite at Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel...
...clothing industry could legislate, Everyman's closet would permanently hold eight suits, one tuxedo, five sports coats, seven pairs of slacks' two topcoats, four hats and 18 shirts-the wardrobe that the industry prescribes as ideal. The average American man has always been much more cautious: he has bought only when he needed to, spent only a modest $133 annually. Result: the industry has long been stationary and profit-starved. In fact, 40 years ago, 1,000,000 more men's suits were turned out than last year, when production was 21.7 million...
...student had written to Fr. Burke to apologize for dressing in a Bishop's costume at the game and "blessing" the Harvard team at halftime, after University officials expressed alarm and Dean Monro discovered the costume in his closet...
Most of his fellow New Yorkers com plain about crime. Charlie DiMaggio, 62, does something about it. Owner of a closet-sized grocery store ,on Lexington Avenue just south of Spanish Harlem, DiMaggio has been the victim of 26 holdups in 20 years. He has thwarted the bandits 16 times, shot four robbers, and helped arrest twelve others. And that, as Cousin Joe, the erstwhile Yankee Clipper would agree, is pretty good clipping. Last week three armed Negroes walked into the store for Holdup No. 26. Shoving Charlie into the wash room, they scooped $300 from the cash register...
...mysticism met in the Hesse household and merged in the boy's imagination. Religion and poetry were his earliest passions, and poetry prevailed. At 14, Hesse dropped out of theological seminary; at 21, he published his first book of verse. In the next 15 years he achieved some closet reputation as a man who had little to say but said it exquisitely...