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...Nice Part. Some of the world premieres played during the week were clearly also swan songs-the one and only performance of some trail blazer's lapse into buffoonery. But the au courant audience had come to hear a conclave of the bizarre as well as the beautiful, and like buyers at a fall fashion showing in Paris, they cherished the new and outlandish for its own sake...
...first couple of days, the biggest attraction was Actress Marlene Dietrich, who turned up for a while in the gallery. Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, wasted a fiery speech on a near-empty chamber. Pastore passionately flung open his blue blazer, clapped his hand over his chest and declared: "I say to those who have doubts about the treaty that I want them to open their hearts and look into their consciences. I want them to realize what they might be doing. If by their vote they destroy and kill the treaty...
...slacks, people's capitalism was unthinkable in prewar Japan. Today, an estimated 6,000,000 Japanese-many of them housewives, factory workers and shopkeepers-own stocks. An average trading day on the Tokyo Exchange sees no fewer than 100 million shares of stock change hands. The trail blazer in this phenomenal growth of stock ownership is a jovial, pipe-chewing kabuya (securities broker) named Tsunao Okumura, who has fought public apathy, occupation forces, and the power of Kabutocho, Japan's Wall Street, to educate the Japanese public in the benefits of owning stocks...
...looks like Jimmy Durante trying to look like Mohandas Gandhi. He has the innocence of Durante, the gentleness of Gandhi, and a stupidity that is all his own. He swaggers about the slums of Rome in what he demurely describes as "sportswear": moldy sneakers, maggoty jodhpurs, a blazing blazer apparently made from an old American flag. His head sticks up like the little bald ball on top of a flagpole. His nose and his chin all but meet in front of his mouth, as though trying to hiri-d-and well they might. His mouth is a little round hole...
Last week, it was a pretty green jacket with brass buttons and an embroidered map of the U.S. on the breast pocket. The blazer and $20,000 go to the Masters champion, and Arnold Palmer got close enough last week to read the label-while he was helping Jack Nicklaus slip...