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...styled" with an eye to customer appeal. Very strong now in casket styles, Miss Mitford writes, is the patriotic theme represented by "the Valley Forge," once advertised in color in an undertaker's trade journal with some Early American cupboards and a portrait of George Washington. For "the bon vivant who dreams of rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted and shirred, with...
...well as in life. In payment he gave royal protection, and no one basked more deliciously in the Sun King's rays than Charles Le Brun, "First Painter of the King" and for 20 years the absolute arbiter and benevolent tyrant of le bon gout français. Swept into museum storerooms as succeeding generations downgraded 17th century classicism, Le Brun has been rehabilitated this summer in an almost too complete exhibition at the Château de Versailles...
...Detroit, and decided early that the way to fun and fortune was to be afootball star. But, alas, at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute he learned that college football players do not always get paid. Wagner quit after a year, with a hard-earned reputation as a bon vivant...
...Bon Mot. One of the principal elsewheres is the federal capital of Ottawa, where a French-speaking civil servant who receives a letter in French must send it to a translation bureau to be put into English. Even French-speaking civil servants are required to communicate with each other in English; it simplifies filing...
Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...