Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everybody has suspected for some time-that their teen-age audience has begun to walk out on them. The popularity of rock 'n' roll began to slack off about a year ago, and stations that once blared Splish Splash, Dream Lover, Hey, Little Girl and High School Sweater have started turning to less frenzied numbers such as Delia Reese's Don't You Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Brook Benton. Back into pop records went the sound of shimmering strings, down went...
Perhaps some of that cynicism developed when Latham was himself an undergraduate at Harvard almost thirty years ago. "The sweater still fits," he admits, "but I would hesitate to display the numerals. (Class of 1930). Coming from Brockton High School, "where everybody knew everybody," Latham entered the cold, impersonal atmosphere of Harvard during the lingering days of the Gold Coast...
...wear the arctic fox you have to kill it. Wear qiviut-the underwool of the arctic ox-pulled off it like a sweater,' your coat is warm; your conscience, better...
...Bogart, who runs Larrabee industries and is David's older brother, is working on a plastics merger that requires David to merge with a sugar heiress, so he plans to divert Audrey with some love-making of his own. After Bogie slips into his Yale sweater, takes the uke and Rudy Vallee records out of the closet, and goes courting, he has to determine whether the beautiful nymph will spend the rest of her life regaling him with choruses of La Vie En Rose, or be packed off on the next boat to Paris. Happily, the obviousness of this decision...
Londoners paid little note to the tall young woman in the striped dress, perhaps even less attention to her spectacled escort in the woolly sweater. But she was none other than Marina Mussolini, 19, granddaughter of Italy's late Fascist dictator. Marina was raised by her aunt, Countess Edda Ciano, after her father, Flying Ace Bruno Mussolini, favorite son of il Duce, died while testing a bomber that crashed in 1941. Now enrolled in a very proper North London finishing school, she stepped out for an early evening date (curfew on that occasion: 8 p.m.) with Sergio Valva...