In 1955, the same year The Man in the Gray
Flannel Suit came out (and became a bestseller and eventually a movie starring Gregory Peck), Larsen once again recruited Wilson, this time to be part of the planning committee for that year's White House Conference on Education.
Not exact matches
Certainly, the
suit's fabrics are impeccable: one
flannel - wool blend
comes from England's Fox Bros. & Co., the 240 - year - old Savile Row supplier that essentially invented the
flannel suit.
He had little use for the notions of Israel Zangwill, who had popularized the phrase «melting pot» in the title of a 1908 play, or of Henry Ford's image of a foreigner jumping into the pot and
coming out in a gray
flannel suit waving an American flag.