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...Japanese items, e.g., candlesticks. Says she: "They were probably cheaper at Lord & Taylor's than we could have gotten them for in Japan." The Built-in Look. The problem for Author-Editor (Doubleday) Margaret Cousins was how to set up a four-room apartment on East 63rd Street in such a way that she could live with her multitude of books and some favorite furnishings saved from the big Westchester home that she sold. Decorator William Pahlmann (see below) built storage walls wherever he could find the space, gave the study-guest-room the famous Pahlmann tent treatment...
...characteristically dissatisfied: she had not had enough rehearsal time to make movement and symbolism jell. At 66, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Martha Graham still works a ten-hour day. coaxing and bullying her dancers into shape. At her School of Contemporary Dance on Manhattan's East 63rd St., she has eight teachers to help her with some 200 pupils, but it is Graham's own fiercely compelling personality that produces the most lasting impressions. Often she will break off an exercise, recalls a former student, "to quote a poet or philosopher if she thinks it will make...
...hospital after being downed by a prostate gland infection (see MEDICINE); Mississippi's segregating Democratic Senator James O. Eastland, 55, laid up in Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital with a stubborn case of influenza; West Germany's Minister of the Economy Ludwig Erhard, who celebrated his 63rd birthday getting congratulated in bed while recovering from pneumonia contracted on his recent trip to Cairo...
Highlight of the vacation was Mamie Eisenhower's 63rd birthday, celebrated at week's end at a dinner party in "Mamie's cottage" on the Augusta National's grounds. Dressed in a brown silk print with a fitted bodice, the First Lady happily posed for a birthday picture, recalled the time six years ago at Augusta when Grandson David ("just a little boy then") had "gathered up all the blown flashbulbs" after photographers left. Golfer Ike posed impatiently. "Looks as if it's going to rain," he grumped, turned on his heel and strode away...
...about the same time, a Miami-to-Chicago train bringing Marshall Field Jr., 42, publisher of the morning Chicago Sun-Times, and his family home from a Florida holiday pulled into the 63rd Street station. There, to avoid reporters he knew would be waiting for him at the downtown terminal. Field got out alone. He had a secret too-the same as Walters'. Next day Field called Chesser Campbell, publisher of the rival-and dominant-morning Chicago Tribune. "I wanted you to be the first to know," he said, with the air of a man who has just slipped...