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...52nd anniversary dinner of the Poetry Society of America, Honorary President Robert Frost, 87, was served up a bronze bust of himself done by Economist and Sunday Sculptor Leo Cherne (mused Frost: "It doesn't have to look like me; if it's a good bust, it's all right"). Then came the airy dessert: a morsel whipped up by Shelley Award Winner Theodore Roethke. A poetaste...
American boatniks, now 7,000,000 strong, have two great compulsions: to get out on the water, and to trade their boats in for something bigger and better. This week in Manhattan, rag-haulers and stinkpotters thronged the New York Coliseum to see the bigger and better at the 52nd National Motor Boat Show...
...Little Pool. Gleason's historic hangout is Toots Shor's restaurant, which reopens on a new site this week on Manhattan's West 52nd Street with Gleason figuring centrally in the ceremonies. "After all," says Jackie, "I'm the elder statesman of the joint." A close friend of Shor for more than 20 years, Gleason calls him Clamhead. He has long since earned Shor's highest accolade: "Jackie drinks good...
...tourism is falling off in Europe, it is thriving in Asia. In the first six months of this year, U.S. visitors have raised Hong Kong's tourist rate 36% over the same period last year; tourism in Japan is up 31%. (Main reason for the big jump: the 52nd annual Rotary International Convention held in Japan last May.) Travel men predict that tourists in the Far East will increase their spending from last year's $200 million to $1 billion by 1968. Already under construction in Hong Kong are three new hotels, with a total...
...normal to expect that a Noel Coward show will be good. And when the curtain rises above the main hall of the Cunard steam-ship Coronia, the audience is really ready to "sail away." But for five scenes the show is stranded somewhere between the 52nd Street pier and Staten Island, and one begins to wonder whether the good ship Coronia will make it to the high seas...