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Religion Today 2C Theaters 4, 5C TY-Radio 6C Deaths 7C Comics 17C People Urmurral ana cCIiranirlr SECTION ROCHESTER. N. SATURDAY. JUNE 17, 1372 l.yiJust Imagine Lolumbus Droopy bocKs! 'J Inside Fashion patchwork of breakfast, luncheons, dinners, parties, seminars, all woven around what the manufacturt-rs say is going to be big stutf come the cold weather. Even before you arrive, it's a big thing.

Once you're slated to attend, your mail increases more than somewhat with heavy envelopes from various manufacturers, containing information on all sorts of new looks, or variations of old looks in men's clothing. You even get history. One little story is entitled "fhe I'p and Down Saga of Socks" and includes this fascinating question: "Can you imagine Columbus discovering America with droopy socks?" Come to think of it, no. Your wife goes iirto hysterics at home ripping open the envelopes and reading what's inside. "They're worse than riease turn page can see even with sun-glasses to cut down the glare.

It's different, brighter, checkered world. Men's fashion today is big business. It is now a $16 billion a year industry. And an indication of its importance can be seen in a four-day blast being held here just to show what's coming up for fall and winter for the American male. Summer has Just arrived, but big plans are afoot for the cold eather.

Ryan it a columnist of the Hartford, Ttmn, hieh it a member oj thi Gannett Croup. Bv BU LL RYAN Cannett Sewi Servict NEW PALTZ. N.V. Once upon a time, the ordinary guy could be graduated in nis best suit, be married in it, and if necessity demanded be put away for all time in it. But there has been a revolution in men's clothes over the past few years as anyone About 225 fashion editors and wTiters (seven out of ten of them women ana there nv be a message in hat for lib) are gathered here in a mountaintop gingerbread castle called Mohawk Mountain House to get the big message in forthcoming male If you attend one of these thugs for the first time, it's kind of a shock to tee how much importance is attached to men's fashions, particularly if you're a guy who refuses to tear up the white shirts with the button-down collars into shocshine clothes.

But it is a big thing. It's a 7 Husband-wife team. Sonny, Cher Due July II Sonny and Chrr. the husband-wife sinping-comcdy duo, will appear In concert Tuesday, July 11. in the Community War Memorial.

I iKntt t.n.A enA rifirAc iThe Arts in Rochester ur inc )il sia jlflia imj no. ovn. in the millions, and performed concert and nightclub dates. A year ago CBS television aired them in six shows as a summer replacement variety series. V.

nrima.timd Dissidents Lose Bid for CM A List ixlL UdllUdlJT III WlIC UUltru HIV "Sonny and Chr Comedy Hour," recently renewed for an 8 p.m. time slot on Friday nights this fall. Sonny was born in Detroit in 1935; Cher, who is part Cherokee, was born in El Centro, in 1946. But his flashy jumpsuits and her jeweled gowns narrow the eleven-year gap in their aces. Tickets for their July 11 appearance here will go on sale at the War Memorial box office sometime next week.

from Theodore Price. New Curator Robert Henning. formerly of San Francisco, will take the new position of curator and will assume most of the duties of retiring assistant director Isabel C. Herdle at the Memorial Art Gallery here. Miss Herdle, who has been in charge of exhibitions, programs and collections officially retires from that post July is continuing at the gallery, where an office in the original build ing has been refurbished for her.

Miss Herdle's retirement ends a long tenure of Herdles at the gallery. Her father, the late George L. Herdle, was founding director when the gallery was established in 1913. Her sister, Gertrude Herdle Moore, retired in 1962 after 40 years as director. Miss Herdle, long popular as a gallery lecturer, a lively talker and, authority on many phases of art, especially Amercian folk art, has been roundly feted on her retirement." She describes it only as "easing off." Henning, 34, was director of the Ohio State University College of the Arts gallery 'for two years after apprenticeship for two years at the Cleveland Museum.

He has degrees from Ohio State and Western Reserve Universities and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Also a musician, Henning has been organist and music director in various churches. from By DEL RAY A dissident group in the Civic Music Association yesterday lost a court fight for access to the association's list of its 8,000 members. State Supreme Court Justice Jacob Ark denied the request from Concerned Members of the Civic Music Association for a court order permitting that group to examine the membership roll and use it in a special fund drive. Such use of the list, Ark said, would jeopardize the annual fund campaigns of the association itself.

"A corporation 'obviously should not be compelled to aid in its own harm or destruction'," Ark added, quoting another court's decision in a somewhat similar case. The dissident group's chairman, John A. Santuccio of Pittsford, last night expressed "extreme disappointment" with the decision. He said the Concerned Citizens may goy after the list again, this time to use in fielding a slate for the CMA elections this fall. He added that his group may have abandoned their fund-raising plans since the Rochester Philharmonic's summer season is now assured, the immediate urgency for funds has passed.

The Concerned Members, a group dissati'sfied with practices of the association's board of directors had wanted to use the membership list in its campaign to raise $50,000 in "conditional pledges." The money raised would be turned over to the financially troubled association only if the board of directors were to rescind the firing last winter of several members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and discharge Samuel Jones as conductor. Santuccio said last April the assocition refused his request for the membership list. The association's membership consits of contributions to its annual fund drive. About $400,000 was pledged in a campaign that ended in February. In opposing the Concerned Members' court action, the association contended the group was trying to compel the board of directors to make decisions "against its better judgment," Ark said.

Ark, in a memorandum denying the dissidents' request for the membership list, stated "there is an element of good faith involved in this controversy." "It consists of the relationship between the association and the public from which it seeks yearly pledges," Ark continued. "A person who makes a pledge to an organization which conducts an annual campaign for funds has a right to rely upon the fact Please turn page Bluesman B.B. King played to sparse crowd last night at War Memorial. Jean Walrath Novelist to Wed Bovs Town Riches Under Fire Novelist Taylor Caldwell and Willalm E. Religion Today Through the years, a system of self-government evolved along with civil ideals strong on community service and patriotism.

It's a Boys Town boast that out of thousands of graduates, only one ever deserted from the armed forces. One highly publicized Boys-Town veteran is Lloyd Bucher, who was commander of the ill-fated Pueblo. would house boys in trouble. The first residents were two homeless newsboys and three juvenile delinquents. By 1921 he moved to the present site and the slow but ultimately spectacular growth of Boys Town began.

Stancell, a real-estate developer, are waiting for a marriage license. Stancell, 72, of Jacksonville, has con-fired that they had applied for a license at a town clerk's office near Miss Caldwell's Eggerts-ville home, outside Buffalo. He said no date had been set for the wedding. Miss Caldwell, 71, met Stancell on a world cruise this spring. The author of 30 novels, Miss Caldwell recently completed her lastest bestseller, "Captains and the She is the widow of Marcus Reback.

from the AP. Bobby's 'Mania' Boris Spassky, world chess champion, said yesterday he feels sorry for American challenger Bobby Fischer because of his "persecution mania" but considers him a "remarkable" player without whom the world of chess would be "very dull "If I had the freedom to choose my challenger I would ask for Fischer," Spassky told a news conference. Their world championship matches begin July 2 at Rekjavik, Iceland. Spassky, 35, was reluctant to comment on the 29-year-old Fischer's boasts he would win, and his accusations that the Russians had plotted to deprive him of the title by arranging to hold the games in Iceland. But after repeated questioning, he said Fischer's "remarks make a strange impression.

He appears to have a persecution mania and thinks1 By Malcolm MacPhersbn Newsweek BOYS TOWN, famed refuge for poor and homeless boys, started half a century ago by Father Edward Flanagan with $90 and a lot of faith, today is suffering from an embarrassment of riches. The Boys Town image, indelibly engraved on the American mind by Spencer Tracy when he portrayed the late Father Flanagan on film in 1938, is that of simple, humane priests bringing bereft kids out of the cold. But some complex questions have been raised recently about the institution's resources and role in the wake of financial revelations that Boys Town has a net worth of more than $200 million and an endowment fund four times greater than that of the University of Notre Dame. Is there something incompatible between an investment portfolio earning more than $3 million a year and donations averaging $1.60 that are solicited from thousands of Boys Town supporters? And is Father Flanagan's guiding creed that "there is no such thing as a bad boy" sufficiently broad to justify a multi-million-dollar institution that has been slow to react to changing social needs? THE QUESTIONS AROSE after The Omaha Sun public ized income figures that Boys Town filed with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt institution. The newspaper concluded that this "city of little men," as Father Flanagan liked to call it." "has more money than it knows what to do with." Critics promptly attacked Boys Town policies that do not permit care of mentally retarded youngsters (only normal IQ's are accepted) or reach out into ghetto areas.

And Msgr. Nicholas H. Weg-ner, 73,, who succeeded Father Flanagan, has been quick to reply. "I could give it away," he says. "I could clean up Omaha's North Side ghetto, or suppose I gave $10 million to clean up the stockyards? People would scream, 'What are you spending that money Because we have a surplus doesn't mean we have to give it away.

The rank-and-file people who send in little donations give Boys Town and nothing else." Some 700 boys live, study and work here today' on 1,300 prairie acres handsomely landscaped, studded with modern buildings and worth $8 million. The mammoth field house, one of the nation's largest, can accomodate 500 boys all playing games at once without anybody stepping on anybody else's toes. All the boys, aged 8 to 17, must be either homeless, underprivileged, wayward or neglected. Some simply walk in from U. S.

Hiphway 6, drawn from their private limbos bv the Boys Town reputation. About 15 per cent are referred by the courts'. Half of the population is Catholic, the rest mostly Protestant, with a few Jews. All are the embodiment of Father Flanagan's original dream. IX 1917.

HE HAD WORKED for three years in a working-men's hotel where he tried fu-tilely to reform drunkards and criminals. "Then," he once said, "I realized they were grown men, set in their wavs and I searched into their beginnings for an answer." The result was that Father Flanagan borrowed $30 from a Jewish pawnbroker and rented a dilapidated building in downtown Omaha tht 5 --m tv' 'i4--l-" I T. il'' h'ri I) soviet chess players want to harm him. There is nothing to it and I feel sorry for Fischer." Spassky said unlike Fischer he did not set out to be a world champion and he would be "the happiest man alive if I were no longer champion." "I like to play chess for fun and not fame." he said. "My idea of a pleasant evening is to share some wine with friends and play chess.

Sometimes I lose on purpose to please my friends. "I look forward to Rekjavik as if it were a holiday." From Henry Shapiro of UPI No Prince Frank Frank Sinatra has turned down an offer to make a show business comeback in a new movie musical. Harold Davison, Sinatra's European business representative, says the singer visited London at the invitation of Paramount Films to discuss the leadirg role in "The Little Prince." wiitten by Alan Jay Lenier and Frederick Loewe, the "My Fiar Lady" team. "But there are too many problems for this to be worked out in a satisfactory fashion," Davison said, denying a London newspaper report that Sinatra had begun rehearsals for the movie. From the AP.

1 a surplus we don't have to give it Msgr. Nicholas H. Wegner:.