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Just before curtain time, a member of the audience took the stage. He wore a dark blazer, his goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave...
...them were Ike and Jester George, whose early-October Palm Springs hospitality the Eisenhowers were returning. As they chatted on the platform, Mamie looked at the overcast, said to Mary Allen: "If the sun doesn't shine, Ike will be mad." Ike, sporting the National's green blazer and a grey and tan checkered sports shirt, replied confidently: "Don't worry, it will burn off." Sure enough, sunshine poked through the clouds that afternoon; after some paper work at his office above the pro shop and lunch with Mamie and the Aliens, Ike had his round...
...running 23% ahead of last year. Biggest demand is for old standbys such as polo and Chesterfield coats, but there is also a fad for kilt skirts and shaggy-dog coats. In Los Angeles the Smart Sixteen set is buying blankets for a sew-it-yourself skirt and blazer set. Most popular are clothes adorned with raccoon. Says Angela Kroll, buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue: "We can sell anything with raccoon." Best & Co. is doing a big business in detachable raccoon collars ($10.95 for a 14-in. Peter Pan collar, $15.95 for a 31 -in. shawl collar), and Chicago teen...
...hair was white as a breaker's foam. But the brown eyes were as keen as ever behind the crow's-feet wrinkles of half a century spent peering at sky and sea. Ruddy and fit in his natty yacht-club blazer, Cornelius Shields (TIME cover, July 27, 1953) was every inch a blue-water skipper as he relaxed last week in Long Island's Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and started to instruct 33 experienced sailors about his happy...
...Florida, Lemmon's bewigged and beaded feminine charms catch the eye of a much-married millionaire (Joe E. Brown). Curtis meanwhile finds time to forsake female impersonation long enough to quick-change into yachting cap and blazer, and woo Marilyn with a fairly good impersonation of Cary Grant. At the end, boy wins girl, and old boy is still hotly pursuing his falsied Lemmon...