The selection of the cup final side has been cited as evidence of Grant's inability to make tough decisions and fear of offending the egos that clutter the dressing room he inherited.
By Stanley Edgar Hyman The New Yorker, September 23 , 1944P. 15 Items from a Bubbling Caldron: A woman in California inherited from a friend 540 dresses, 277 blouses, 53 night gowns and slips, 280 sweaters, 303 scarfs, 462 cuff sets, 231 purses, 240 pair of gloves, 160 pair of nylon stockings and some cash.
Salamon counters that this penchant may be inherited: her Hungarian mother and her aunts all dressed like Parisians.
"We inherited the informal work environment — the casual dress, the flexible hours — from Silicon Valley, but we adapted it to the East Coast urban environment," he said.
The bride had sewed her knee-length dress out of a lace tablecloth inherited from her grandmother.
Her prim manner, conservative dress, and the slight English accent inherited from her mother are hardly evocative of an academic radical.
They quarrelled and reconciled, much as we had done, and worked on their poise and dabbled in danger and took turns wearing a gorgeous Schiaparelli dress that one of the girls had inherited from an aunt.
"We inherited a theater with a magnificent tradition, an unsafe stage, dressing rooms which were a disgrace to civilized society and maximum discomfort for the audience," said Sir John Mortimer, the playwright and author who is the theater company's chairman.
She wore a purple dress by Angela Kelly and a diamond and pearl brooch inherited from Queen Mary.
