President’s Day: JFK’s One Semester In Tigertown
From John F. Kennedy’s one semester at Princeton in the fall of 1935. He would eventually graduate from Harvard. Head over here for a short write-up on an exhibit held at Princeton in 2011. — CC
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The Young JFK, Not Yet Ready For Prime Time
Yesterday was the birthday of John F. Kennedy. Here are a few pictures of him while a student at Choate, submitted by a reader a couple of birthdays ago. Above Kennedy is pictured in buttondown collar, which he would abandon during his presidential election — the first to reach a mass audience via television — …
JFK On PBS
Tonight at 9 PM is the premiere of a new JFK documentary on PBS. Here’s the description: Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin’s bullet, Kennedy’s presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an administration long on promise and vigor, and somewhat lacking in tangible accomplishment. His proposals for a tax cut and …
JFK Buttoned Down
Today is Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ birthday (she would have been 82), and obliquely in her honor we present a photo of her late husband captured wearing a buttondown collar, which he eschewed upon entering the national spotlight, saying they were “too Ivy League.” — CC
In Remembrance
The cover photo, and the photo below, are of Memorial Day parades in 1955, the cover is Texas, the one below is Pennsylvania. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” – JFK
Duck Head Migrates North
Editor’s Note: Rather than have me litter the post with “click on the image to see…” – if you click on each image you will see the product featured but on the Duck Head site in better detail. I am all about the locally sourced nature of some things. Nantucket Red as a color will …
Ivy Notes S1 E21
Trend is a dopamine hit, an understandable one. Who doesn’t like new, the zap you get from a change, a piqued curiosity? Trend serves us in a number of places. The markets (the markets love volatility). Social progress (where a trend leads to a more permanent evolution). Etc. My least favorite word is trend. There …
Covid’s Opening Act Was Summer Fridays
This is my day today, started at 3:15, did the pages (I write three handwritten pages every morning, first thing – you know how you dump out the old grinds before you make new coffee, some of them hug the sides of the filter because it is wet and you have to rinse the filter …
Requiescat In Pace
If you have a Presidential Memorial Day quote you would like us all to see, please post it in the comments and I will find a photo to go with it and post it between now and Tuesday morning. Tuesday is our review of Mountain & Sackett’s Spring/Summer ties, but until then have a safe …
Slow Your Beefroll – An 11,000 Word Argument For The Sockless
Well, if pictures are worth a thousand words each. Ok, let me head off a few errant comments before they are posted. (1) Boat shoes are leather. (2) Sneakers are justifiable as exhibits because they tend to be tighter, you tend to walk more …
Ivy Notes S1 E12 – Chipp Off The Old Block
Alright man, look. In various professional capacities over the years, I have had to write funny for money. My brief to my divorce attorney was both hilarious and ultimately economical. I have punched up scripts (a godawful project I couldn’t finish, it was written by an actor, a REAL actor, who should REALLY act. He …
Presidential Valets
My favorite story about presidential valets (grammar note before you get your blood pressure up, “presidential” is only capitalized when it is part of a formal title, like the name of an event, like Presidential Inauguration – it is not a proper noun unto itself so in this usage, small p – which reminds me, …
Ivy Notes S1 E4 – G. Bruce Boyer Corrects Me, A Brief History Of Abercrombie & Fitch, and The Great Alpacuna Debate
Editor’s Note: In the Facebook Group, we are treated to fantastic articles by the only purveyor we allow to advertise to the group, James Taylor of Waterhollow Tweed. He recently gave us permission to reprint two such pieces. Let’s have a smidge of retail history–the “Abercrombie & Fitch” that exists today is NOT …
Heavy Duty Ivy and.. well…
Here’s the article. It is from the Robb Report, by a Mr. Eric Twardzik, who can write. It is worth the read. My objections to the article have nothing at all to do with Mr. Twardzic’s take, rather they have to do with Mr. Snyder’s take. In the first paragraph, Mr. Twardzik inadvertently points out …
Reader Follow Up On The Pen Resolution
There’s so much good stuff in the comments and I fear a lot of it gets lost – the pen discussion really took off so I thought it would be of service to postpone for one more day the Part 2 of the Ivy Resolutions and collect the comments on the pen discussion here. …
Cigars but first a rabbit hole.
I promise cigars. But here is a close up of the guy to the left of JFK. This photo is credited as being at Hyannis. Ok, I will get back to the central thesis. But no promises that we don’t circle back. A number of events coalesced. First, I have a huge day on Monday …
The Great Boat Shoe Debate (and the right answer).
The lead picture is boat shoes not on a boat. Here’s Aristotle: Aristotle knew how to frame thinking. He wrote a book. Rhetoric. In Rhetoric he talked about the Rule of Three. That people remember things most easily in three’s. I have heard, but cannot verify, that that is why area codes and the …
Live Long And Prosper
One night in 1966, Merv Griffin, speaking through the haze of his cigarette smoke, introduced a guest on his television show by declaring: As is well-known, George Washington is the father of our country, but there is a man here who comes in a close second… The top selling book in the world is the …
News Roundup: Brooks Vintage, Alden Embezzlement, And The Armoury’s Spring Suits
Greetings, gentlemen, and hope that wherever you are your spring has sprung. We’re long overdue with a catchup on all the news in Tradsville. We’ll start with something rather salacious and really quite incredulous. We’ve known that Alden has done phenomenally well over the past decade, indeed apparently well enough to misplace $30 million. Former …