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...defeat brought the varsity's record to fur wins and 11 defeats. The team's next game is this Saturday, here, against Princeton...
...Washington's staunchest bachelors, new House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 63, made a date with his youngest sister, Lucinda Rayburn, gallantly helped her into a fur wrap before they headed for the White House, where Texas-Democrat Rayburn was the President's dinner guest of honor...
Ironically, even the earliest painters of the West were recording an already vanishing era. The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak. Paris-trained Miller's paintings of a fur trappers' rendezvous, done with blue-tinted mountains in the romantic manner of Delacroix, are the only surviving pictorial records of the mountain men's great annual blowouts of drinking, fighting, "squaw doin's" and trading. The Swiss painter Charles Bodmer, first artist...
...reason for the Eskimo's comfort in below-zero weather is that his clothes are not built on the European principle of insulating the body with many layers of cloth fitting close to the skin. Eskimo clothes are designed to capture and hold warm air. The loose fur trousers fit snugly over the boots. No cold air can rise up the legs to replace air that has been warmed by the body. Over the trousers the Eskimo wears a windtight fur parka with the skin side outside and no opening in front. It has a hood and it fits...
...were damned by the ladies this Fall as the clothes-conscious 'Cliffedweller decided under pressure that she really did not look better with that flat look and low waist-line. Instead, she has taken on that bulky look while trimming her jersey and wool with cuffs, collars, buttons and fur. The girls have discovered that men do not like the Radcliffe white shirt and dirty sneaker wardrobe and are making an honest attempt to acquire the appearance and air of well dressed and sophisticated young ladies...