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...Genuine learning has ever been said to give polish to man; why then should it not bestow charms on women?" Pioneer Educator Emma Willard 150 years ago answered her own question with energy and decision. As farmers jeered ("They'll be educating the cows next"), she started a school for girls in her home in Middlebury, Vt. A few years later she moved her classes to a remodeled coffee house in Troy, N.Y., and set up the school as a Female Seminary, where young ladies learned such novelties as science, philosophy, literature, foreign languages and history...
...late husband designed and built the first one in 1911, and that gave the Vintage Chevrolet Club of America a bright, if belated, idea. They would bestow honorary membership on Suzanne Chevrolet, 75. Off chugged the members to her home near Detroit, with a vintage 1915 Chevy in tow. The automaker's widow graciously climbed behind the wheel, chatted about Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet. And which model does she drive today? "A Mercury," she replied. "They gave me a better deal...
...prevailing flavor of Foxy, which borrows its name and some threads of plot from Ben Jonson's Volpone. Double-crossed by three rascally pals, Prospector Lahr gets his revenge by pretending that he is at death's door, with a fortune in nuggets to bestow. His greedy victims vie desperately with one another to show their love for Lahr. One of the sourdoughs, after snapping up a comely virgin for $33,000 on the Yukon's bullish bride market, even offers Bert the jus primae noctis. As for the gift, red-haired Julienne Marie, her wistful eyes...
...Jones" was so generously scooped that a single false step-and zut! alors! "We think women are glad to have such decolletage," said a Dior spokesman. But as soon as the show was over, the suddenly-modest models buttoned up quick as a blink before rushing out to bestow the usual congratulatory kisses on their mentor...
Jonathan Gordon, who plays Birdie, makes a splendid oaf. His "Sincere" song, punctuated by screaming teenagers and collapsing matrons, is easily the high point of the first act. Birdie, about to be drafted, makes a trip to Sweet Apple, Ohio, where he is to bestow his last leering kiss--coast-to-coast--on Kim MacAfee, typical teenage fan (played charmingly by Carol Ketty). In Sweet Apple he runs into Kim's father, Gilbert Nussbaum, who counters Birdie's laughable lecheries with wonderfully ineffectual tantrums. The father's rage subsides, briefly at least, when he appears on the Ed Sullivan show...