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...eight, Darwin muttered to his father, who was playing in a sedate foursome, "let us beat those beasts." He remained a partisan zealot the rest of his life. In 1929 the British ladies champion Joyce Wethered was five down in a match to her American counterpart, Glenna Collet. Before she sunk a putt that proved the turning point in the contest and enabled her to go on to victory, Miss Wethered noticed Darwin in the gallery and recalls that "his face wore an expression that was a mixture of fury and dejection." Darwin took no solace in the notion that...
...lent her approval-and signature in shocking pink and black-to a spring collection of dresses, blouses, shirts and short shorts created by her friend, Designer Arlette Nastat. The threads, which go on sale next month in stores in Manhattan and Dallas, are clingy, transparent and décolleté. The market for the collection, however, may be limited. The former sex kitten sees potential customers as "women who have my allure, my look...
...private grubstake, Hardrock Horace bought off her current protector and made Baby Doe his mistress. No matter that he was 53 and she 23, or that he was married. It was conglomeration at first sight. After divorcing his wife, Hod married the designing Doe (her décolleté bridal gown cost $7,500), and they set out to live lavishly ever after. In Denver, Hod built the lady a splendiferous mansion surrounded by a hundred peacocks, nude statuary (it later had to be clothed in deference to some Denver bluenoses), and carriages of every hue to suit her costume...
...body because it has great possibilities for interpretation," Wunderlich says. That much he shares with the German expressionists. But his dry wit and typically surrealist delight in visual and verbal puns provide ample comic relief. He titled a portrait of a woman with five breasts Very Décolleté. As for interpretations of his paintings, he leaves that to others. "I refuse to try to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself, you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick...
...France, the post-Bardot girls all seem to be homebodies. Gallic fan magazines pose them indefatigably in décolleté aprons, cooking or warming baby bottles...