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...dress in every closet in the U.S. had been outmoded at one stroke. Every year since then, Seventh Avenue has looked to Dior to do it again. Dior duly assumed the accents proper to a dictator. "The women who are loudest for short skirts will soon be wearing the longest dresses. I know very well the women." He banished knees: "This part is never to be seen. It is bone, and I do not find bone particularly attractive." On occasion (1953) he changed direction without breaking stride, declaring: "I'm just itching to pin up women's skirts...
...last two weeks, however, have changed all this. The Crimson has won its last five games in a row--the longest win streak in ten years--but more important, it is playing excellent basketball. Under Wilson's patient supervision, the team is moving the ball better than at any time in this observer's memory; it is shooting very well; and it is exhibiting a hustle expected not of a fifth place Crimson team, but of a first place contender (which Harvard...
Although the Nordic squad will be weakened by the absence of Captain Joe Poindexter, the team is in better condition than last week. However, Middlebury presents the challenge of a 55 meter ski jump, the longest at all the winter carnivals...
...East-West professional All-Star basketball game, Boston's Bill Sharman cut loose with a long pass to his teammate Bob Cousy. Cousy never got his hands on the ball. It sailed over his head and dropped cleanly through the net for a 70-ft, basket, probably the longest unintentional field goal on record...
...York Central Railroad, ushered in a new symbol of 20th century progress for his venerable old line. Throwing a switch on a signal box (see cut), he formally opened a new 163-mile, electronically regulated stretch of double track between Cleveland and Buffalo. With the new system, the longest in the U.S., only two men seated before a light-studded control panel at Erie can automatically control all traffic between Cleveland and Buffalo...