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Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 48, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot) now finishing his libretto for a musical based on the life of Haute Couturiere Coco Chanel; and Karen Gundersen, 31, a Newsweek reporter he met during an interview last year; he for the fifth time (others: Socialite Ruth Boyd, Actresses Marion Bell and Nancy Olson, and Lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo), she for the first; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Tiffeau last spring, claimed some. Alberto Fabiani in Rome the week before, recalled others. Even Patou's designer, Michel Goma, who brought waistlines up nearly under the arms, let the length vary from two inches above the knee to midcalf. The miniskirt? "Dégoütant," snapped Coco Chanel. "Now I know why men don't like women any more." And so Chanel stayed Chanel, with neatly fitted suits just covering the kneecap. Pierre Cardin dropped an inch, but was still airborne, two or three inches above the knee; Castillo showed dresses that fell just above...
Previn has signed to conduct 60 concerts with various U.S. orchestras in the 1966-67 season, eight with the Houston Symphony. In two of the concerts, he will play the piano and conduct from the keyboard. He is also composing his first Broadway musical, Coco, about the life of 83-year-old Parisian Designer Coco Chanel, in which he is collaborating with Alan Jay Lerner. He has contracted with RCA Victor Red Seal to score either two pop or two jazz albums a year, and to do four conducting jobs a year...
...Cambodian border, the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division continued Operation Hattiesburg, which so far has captured 240 tons of rice, three base camps and eight way stations, caches of TNT and 40 3.5 rockets. The men of the Big Red One also got 189 Communists in Operation Coco Beach near Ben Cat-150 when a regimental-size force of Reds charged a 1st Division bivouac in the predawn darkness. The 1st fired back at point-blank range with everything it had, including 105-mm. howitzers. Near Tuy Hoa, the 101st Airborne's Operation Harrison...
...Chanel showing it is de rigueur for spectators to wear their own little Chanel suits out of loyalty to Coco. But no one told Barbra; she swept in to take her place beside Marlene Dietrich and Elsa Martinelli in a jaguar-skin suit and Homburg that had even the models gawking. How did she like the show? "Those girls at Cardin's," said the girl from Brooklyn, "they didn't have a thing under their dresses. I was embarrassed." And Paris haul couture? Barbra politely demurred: "Nice, but not for me." Privately, she declared: "It stinks...