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It’s a place the Queer Eye five might well take some mossbacked Seattleite for a wardrobe makeover.

She is at some pains, though, to dispel the widespread notion that the books can’t be much good because their author was a toff—a snob, a name-dropper, a mossbacked Tory.

In "The Reivers," a character groused, "there are no seasons at all any more, with interiors artificially contrived at sixty degrees in summer and ninety degrees in winter, so that mossbacked recidivists like me must go outside in summer to escape cold and in winter to escape heat."

Breaking all the mossbacked rules of suburban journalism, she made Newsday a paper for all Long Island, a lively and irreverent daily that could always find a local angle to apply to the news of the nation and the world.

Beyond civil rights lay other troubles for both Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn: with the big Northern and Western majorities, such mossbacked committee chairmen as House Rules Committee Boss Howard Smith of Virginia are likely to find themselves under many an organized floor attack from their own party.