The Saxophone Slouch

Park Avenue stylists have recently plumped for new variations of the once-famous bangs hairdo of the flapper era. Some, fashion designers happily predict a return to the slim, boyish John Held figure, a '20s favorite.

Last week Manhattan's aging, spry Dr. George B. McAuliffe, 81, a retired professor of otology who dabbles in the field of posture correction, voiced sinister warnings against the bust-flattening, underslung flapper figure which causes shifting of vital organs, general internal trouble. Dr. McAuliffe thinks American girls today are pretty good; their neat, trim figures, unhampered by unnecessary clothes, are the best nature has produced in this country. Let them stay that way, advised Dr. McAuliffe, and "let them dress as though it were always summertime."

Dr. McAuliffe had little to say for modern man, whose back he compared to a saxophone. Slouching, said he, causes autointoxication of the digestive organs, displacement of the stomach from its normal position, a trap to collect poisons. And modern man is an inveterate sloucher --according to Dr. McAuliffe, "still a rather simian affair."

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