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...Vanderbilts were here this morning and so were the Sonny Whitneys and the Ogden Phippses and they were all agog at the cute little brown horse done in saddle cloth colors of gold and turquoise with rose tassels in his mane. And speaking of eating out, everyone was doing just that under the early morning purple sky on the green grass as Harry M. Stevens caterers provided a spread of truffles and figs and express made on an open air wood fire...
Again from the epigraph: "Plump-face men will mumble academic phrases... gentlemen of the cloth will speak unctuously of values and standards." One can easily picture the set of Hoover's bulldog jowls and imagine his inflection, particularly on the word "peace," when he suggested that King's behavior was hardly befitting the standards expected of a Nobel Prize winner. Equally conceivable is the overwhelming sense of dislocation and betrayal that must have hit King like the hot and hard wind of a desert sand storm. The camera and the microphone, which had been his two biggest weapons from...
...most resonant cheer went up for a little old lady in a print dress and a cloth coat, who wrinkled her nose and shot her right fist aloft as she walked through the gate. The crowd mobbed her when she announced in a syrupy Southern drawl that her name was Nannie Leah Washburn, and that she had traveled all the way from Atlanta to lie down in front of cars in a traffic circle. "I was born a rebel and I'll always be a rebel," she croaked, and the crowd cheered with gusto. When she told them...
...club of certified million-dollar marvels by fetching $1,200,000. A smallish Gauguin self-portrait, far less impressive than several others he painted, brought $420,000-an auction record for that artist. Degas's 37½-inch-high La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, wearing the original cloth tutu and silk hair ribbon Degas used, broke the existing auction record for sculpture, selling for $380,000. Ironically, the little statue was received with such hostility when Degas first exhibited it in 1881 that he never exhibited any other figure during his lifetime...
Understanding what it meant to be a country was possible only after those rocks called Big Sur were seen by people who should have understood what it meant to have worn cloth woven from Southern cotton. But didn't understand what it meant when they got wet and it all became California...