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...binoculars on everything that reached the auction block. At Gimbels 84-year-old Spanish Millionaire José Lazaro Galdeano, his loud necktie half hidden by a grey spade beard, bought right & left, walked off with one of the season's most expensive buys ($26,742): François Boucher's L'Amour, reputedly posed by Mme. de Pompadour...
Last week New York Ranger Coach Frank Boucher had some hot words for these million-odd rink-siders. Few of them, said he, knew what the world's fastest game was all about. To most of them hockey was a haphazard free-for-all in which someone occasionally slammed the puck into the net. Advised he: "Forget about the puck for a while and watch the way attack and defense form." To the average fan, this was a counsel of perfection. So fast is hockey that players have to make their snap decisions while spurting 30 ft. a second...
...CASE OF THE SOLID KEY-Anthony Boucher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Evil deeds, some homicidal, in a Little Theatre group in Hollywood. Fergus O'Breen is a fairly amusing private detective, well up on his sodium fluoride. Quick and slick...
...CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS-Anthony Boucher-Simon and Schuster ($2). Murder of a script writer who is about to mangle The Speckled Band for Producer F. X. Weinberg. Five of the Irregulars-professional men deep-steeped in Sherlock-Holmesiana - forgather in Hollywood as F. X.'s guests, to advise on the picture. Each has an extraordinary adventure, adapted from some case of Holmes's. The script writer turns out to be a bad man as well as a bad writer...
...king and sip punch. No damage was done. But ordinary visitors will not be allowed to scuff across the room's Savonnerie carpet, made for Louis XIV, or sit in its superbly upholstered chairs. From behind ropes the public will view these and the Sevres porcelain, the Boucher tapestries, the rich Louis XVI paneling, the rock-crystal chandeliers, the china figures so delicate that dust is not wiped off them but whiffed away by a gently pumped bellows...