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Drapes resented any comparison with zoot-suiters. "Everybody knew what zoot-suiters were-draft dodgers, guys that hung around street corners," explained Roy. "But guys that wear pegs nowadays aren't bums. It's just a mode of dress." "Cut out that mode of dress stuff," yelled another. "It's just sharp dressing." The city of Baltimore saw it differently. Said one official, explaining the ban: "Extreme dress leads to poor behavior...
...shortcomings of the Brattle Theater's "Troilus and Cressida" are shortcomings only by comparison with the general high level of the production. Exams permitting, it makes a rewarding evening...
...comparison, on an average winter day with a temperature of 30 degrees, the University uses approximately 3,000,000 pounds of steam each 24 hours. When the temperature skids to 10 above, the consumption is stepped up to 4,000,000 pounds...
...slowest of the year, aside from a whirlwind start to the second period when Jim O'Brien took a Walt-Greeley pass in front of the nets and scored in the 19th second of the stanza. The one-sided story is best told by a comparison of saves--24 for Ed Smith of Andover and 11 for Corning...
...canto of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered." In it Collette Marchand, who also stars in "L'Oeuf a la Coque," dances beautifully in a more traditional style. "Le Rendevous" is a somber and moody ballet of Paris which features Henry Danton. As good as they are, these suffer by comparison with such excitingly imaginative spectacles as "Carmen" and "L'Oeuf a la Coque...