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...Americans the most outlandishly luxurious and wildly gimmicked night's rest in the history of the middle class. Today's motels bear about as much relation to the old tourist cabin as the Baths of Caracalla do to a penny arcade, and the grander names that now adorn them signal the newest look: Motor Inns, High Rise Motor Inns, Horizontal Hotels-almost anything but motels...
Tamable Shrew. With the ruefulness implicit in her title, but also with honesty and a bitchy bonhomie that seldom adorn such Sunset sagas, Bette Davis, now 54, pictures herself as Mother Goddam, a tamable shrew who never found her Petruchio. Her four marriages suffered inevitably from income-patibility. In 1946, Bette Davis earned more ($328,000) than any other woman in the U.S.; one ex-husband, clearing out with the pretty nursemaid, even sued for alimony. Says she: "The only future marriage I would even remotely consider would be with Paul Getty." But she admits that her own rapturous intensity...
...Atlanta Journal smugly pretended it had known all along: "This sell-off had been forecast and foreseen by the smart boys for a long time." (If so, the Journal had not been listening.) Even the Wall Street Journal, which had been onto the story all along, chose to adorn its front page, the day after the dive, with a chart showing that sales of pleasure craft were sinking...
...bewilderment. "Strange," said he, "though they were well known, there has never been a show of Italian bronzes." Until now scattered in scores of collections, the 203 Renaissance statuettes on display are small masterpieces that were in their way as highly prized as the metal and marble giants that adorn Italy's piazzas and palazzos. Shown in force, they present the Renaissance with such an intimacy that to see them is almost to hear the heartbeat...
...Gordon Linen Company at least, the depots have their advantages. Each year a number of packages of sheets disappear from the hallways to adorn the beds of students not contracting for the weekly service or to provide bedding for the friend down for the week end to see the Yale game...