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...controversy started when the Duke of Windsor confided that while he still gets his jackets in London, he now gets his trousers at Harris in New York. Agreed British Couturier Digby Morton: "British trousers look nappy. They are too full, too big all over. Pants are to a man what a brassière is to a woman. They give the figure a line." And in Manhattan a Brooks Brothers executive agreed that "Savile Row has now taken second place to Italy" with its drainpipe trouser effect...
Savile Row doggedly fought back. Snapped one tailor snippily: "Digby Morton is a lady's fashion designer, and it's very noticeable in his pants. We have never admired the American seat." Said another: "We can't vouch for the Windsors." At Henry Poole & Co., oldest of the fashionable Savile Row establishments, a cutter learnedly expounded the theory of the ample trouser leg: "The full thigh acts as a hinge, enabling a man to lift his leg without banging his knee on the front of his trousers...
...accomplish all that with a brief platform that would state its aims in broad, general terms and leave the dangerous, controversial details of how and how much to be settled during the campaign. "We will not try to outpromise the Democrats," said Percy. G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston B. Morton openly voiced the hope that Rockefeller would find the platform so much to his liking that he would change his mind about running for Vice President...
...strategists broke off their meetings was the problem of what to do about the August session of Congress, which will find Richard Nixon presiding over the Senate, Lyndon Johnson back in the slot as majority leader, Kennedy the junior Senator from Massachusetts, and both Kentucky's Thruston Morton, G.O.P. national chairman, and Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Democratic national chairman, in the chamber. New York Republican Senator Kenneth Keating gave a hint of problems to come when he tauntingly offered to assist Jack Kennedy in writing the platform's wide-open civil rights promises into law. Huffed...
...July 24 College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Guest: Republican National Chair man Senator Thruston B. Morton...