MANNERS & MORALS: Hot Argument

MANNERS & MORALS

New York's gum-chewing Daily News took time out from huffing at Harry to return to a hot-weather editorial battle it has been waging for years. Subject: men's summer wear—too many, too heavy and too hot. Said the News: "We've never . . . blown our editorial horn for any nudist cult . . . Where do you put your change, cigarettes and matches? [But] we've urged outright rebellion against any and all social edicts which say a guy has to pull a hot jacket over a carcass which already, probably, is steaming like a 1908 Maxwell. Down with...

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