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For almost half of his 79 years, E. (for Evander) Berry Wall set a smart sartorial pace as an international clotheshorse. He was called the best-dressed American in Europe, the King of the Dudes. He was reported to possess 285 pairs of pants, 5,000 custom-tailored neckties. It...
Written and directed by Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable), The Great McGinty is shrewd, salty, adroit. It is also an actor's dream. Brian Donlevy makes the dream come true. Son of an Irish whiskey distiller who moved to the U. S. before the war, Brian Donlevy was bred...
Into Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Benning, Ga., last week poured a stream of new faces. They were crack officers, detailed in a great batch of Army orders to join the new Armored Force. In officers' conferences the new force's commander, Brigadier General Adna Romanza Chaffee, leather...
Died. Evander Berry Wall, 79, New York-born Beau Brummel, last and most elegant dandy of the Gay Nineties; of uremia; in Monte Carlo. A legend in his own time, recognizable by his high spread-eagle collars, violent waistcoats, blimpish mustache, red chowchows, he moved to France in 1912, continued...
The reasons for this symphonic era are not far to seek. They lie, quite naturally, in the character of modern civilization, and its mechanized, accelerated tempo. Symphonic music means variety, and change of pace; volume, and diversity of tone color; filled with a potent appeal for the man who wakes...