| Show WAOl R BSITHOI PH E1V1 El R 1Y1T1 H 1 1 N IG 1 in The Wall Street Journal ‘'blame it on Giovanni Agnelli The Fiat automotive chairman recently appeared on the cover of Capital International Though he was attired in a suit and serious tie his collar points were conspicuously unanchored" And the idea was Mr Agnelli's own “He never buttons those buttons" said Umberto Venturini of Capital International "He does unusual things like this all the time" Worst Feminist Oversight According to a survey of 130 newspa--r per and magazine editors by Prof Richard L Tobin of Indiana University the term “Ms" once standard in half the newspapers and magazines is now rejected by 7 1 6 percent of them Seventy percent also said they were now rejecting such terms as “chairperson" miral and admiral The 1986 budget bill deletes the title commodore and replaces it with rear admiral lower half In reality nobody is going to address somebody in person as "rear admiral lower half" Just the same we'd love to see somebody try Best Advics For Women In Art of Verbal From The Gentle Suzette Haden by Elgin: CONFRONTATION EIGHT Husband: Even a woman ought to be able to change a flat tire you know Wife: I can change a flat tire and just as well as any man too Husband: Sweetheart there's no need for that tone of voice or that look on your face Instead according to Miss Elgin: "Wife should go to Computer Mode respond to presupposition and maintain her stance like this: Husband: Even a woman ought to be able to change a flat tire you know Wife: The opinion that women are somehow inferior to men is a rather common one but I'm surprised to hear it coming from you darling Best Fashion Women Department Dig shoulders project pow-De- r" reported fashion writer Pamela Hollie in The New York Times "and for several seasons women have worn padded Jackets sweaters and even pajamas to achieve a silhouette that telegraphed squared-of- f a strong message of authority But this fall strong shoulders are receding in If history favor of a rounded look repeats itself the Joan Crawford look of the ’40s will yield to the curvier look of Elizabeth Taylor in the ’50s" Now she tells us— after all that time we spent pretending that mv liked authori-tdth- e pajamas m u wiora praswon news wcni Department If wearing shirts with the collar points unbuttoned soon becomes the rage" reported Joan Kron button-dow-n Best Feminist i— From “Women's Novels" by Margaret Placer in the periodical Open You can have a men's novel with no women in it except possibly the landlady or the hone but you can't have a women's novel with no men in it Sometimes men put women in men's novels but they leave out some of the parts: the heads for instance Or Miss Elgin suggests: "If a counterattack cannot be avoided it goes this way: Wife: The opinion dun women are somehow inferior to men is a rather common one in men your age darling — it's nothing to be concerned about Best Advice For Men At Sea prom the Associated Press: 1 WASHINGTON DC: The Navy not satisfied with the venerable rank of "commodore" or the imprecise title of "rear admiral" has invented an unlikely sounding new rank with the privileges of both: "rear admiral lower half" Until this month a Navy captain who won his first star was called a commodore Next came rear admiral vice ad Best Secretarial Note prom Michael Korda in Penthouse: One thing to bear in mind is that no corporate business gift should ever be expensive since it can then easily be misconstrued as a bribe It is of course always a bad idea to give your secretary a more expensive gift than your wife and an even worse idea to give anybody else in the office a more expensive gift than you gave your secretary lit other words bribe carefully Best Personal Bom New York magazine: An Uncommon Woman —Beautiful thin witty sensuous warm successful attorney with interests ranging from Mozart to Madonna tennis to Tennyson escargots to egg rolls beaches to ballet movies to MOMA NoHo to Nairobi Would like to meet uncommon man 32-4- 5 with sense of humor well-travel- ed It sounds like he’s going to need it Worst Personal Rom Weekly World Newr Wyoming bachelor wants wife Must be interested in fermiqg and own tractor Please enclose picture of tractor |
