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...wouldn't have much fun as a pro." During the Open, while the pros were getting their sleep and spending long hours on the practice tee grooving their swings, Amateur Lacoste was swinging in groovier fashion-bowling, taking in a movie, dancing a wild midnight Charleston, giving piggyback rides to children in her hotel...
During his heyday, art experts generally dismissed Erté's chaste variety of Beardsleyish Orientalism as an evanescent fad, like mah-jongg or the Charleston. Almost alone, French Critic Maurice Feuillet in 1929 hailed him as "a harbinger of the art of tomorrow, a prince of fantasy, a magician of conception." Feuillet may have been close to the truth. Last month, when Manhattan's Grosvenor Gallery put on display 179 early gouache and metallic-paint designs by Erté, the entire collection was snapped up by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gallery has since been selling Erte...
...FIRST LIEUTENANT) JAMES F. BLOSS Charleston Air Force Base...
After a March wedding in Chicago, Jay and Sharon will live in his $75,000 home in the South Hills section of Charleston. Though Jay's spread occupies 15 well-manicured acres, the house itself is a modest five-room brick structure. But it does boast a large patio, and if Sharon would care to add another amenity or two, she need hardly feel limited by her husband's $1,500-a-year state salary...
...were only allowed to leave the college in groups of three. "It's like the Russian guards in Berlin," explained one seminarian. "If one tries to get away, the other two can shoot him." Things have gradually eased up since the Most Rev. Francis Reh, formerly Bishop of Charleston, S.C., took over as rector in 1964. Reh has abolished such restrictive rules as compulsory lights-out, given seminarians full freedom to leave the college premises whenever they want to-providing that they are home for dinner...