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...golf writers' dinner in New York, three colleges, an alumni dinner for Harvard and Stanford business schools, and the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley. Last week he flew off (by commercial jet) to help San Francisco's Giants, lately of New York, dedicate their new $15 million Candlestick Park (see SPORT), took the time to drop by two more colleges on a two-day tour...
This well-endowed young woman, when preparing to meet her beau, would stand the candlestick on the said protuberances whilst combing her hair. In those days, both skirts and hair were long, and, apparently, other statistics were in like proportion. At any rate, my old friend refers to them as the good old days...
Clothes, or the lack of them, naturally obsessed the fashion-conscious French amorists. During the 14th and 15th centuries, women wore disconcertingly low-necked dresses, lacing their breasts so high that "a candlestick could be placed upon them." Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, pioneered a bare-to-the-waist style at court and also stopped the show at the palace by affecting a kind of girl-in-the-Hathaway-patch masking of one breast. Brazenly posing as a Madonna, she managed to have this piquant fashion immortalized by Painter Jean Fouquet...
...Hector is another of Shaw's Chinese-puzzle characters, whose identity opens up like a box to reveal a new one underneath, leaving him a paradox that is never resolved. One of his personae is that of the romantic hero, with a moustache "like a bronze candlestick" and a general air of being a cross between the Prisoner of Zenda and Henry V. Hector is also a boaster and a liar and his wife's lapdog, but he is so totally footling and gormless in Dennis Price's portrayal that his cries of agony go off like damp firecrackers...
...give President Walter O'Malley (TIME cover, April 28, 1958) the last major parcel of 18.4 acres he needs in Chavez Ravine for his prospective $12 million ballpark. In San Francisco, the Giants' play has speeded up construction of the 45,000-seat Candlestick Park. Target date: Oct. 2, just in time for the World Series...