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OFTEN Mrs. Jack's propensities for certain art works were meshed with her proclivity for collecting artists as well as art. John Singer Sargent, James McNeil Whistler, and writers such as Henry James and F. Marion Crawford were only a few noteworthies of her creative entourage...
...dropping from the pearls; the portrait was not nearly as risque as others that Sargent was painting at the time, but when Jack Gardner heard the comments about the picture, he forbid its public exhibition. The gossip was that, "Sargent had painted Mrs. Gardner all the way down to Crawford's Notch...
...second midfield of Verdi DiSesa, Bob Green, and Bucky Hayes is almost on a par with the first line. Behind them is the group of Leif Rosenberger, Ted Campbell, and John Powers, while the fourth midfield is Line Caplan, Dave Scanlon, and Dave Crawford...
...somehow smells of self-exploitation. Katherine Hepburn made her first comedy, Bringing Up Baby, in 1938, and spent the forties as a socialite-heroine forever being brought down to earth by James Stewart or Spencer Tracy. Without much flair for humor-until she discovered being mean to Joan Crawford in the sixties-Bette Davis settled for ever-drearier tear-jerkers...
...gallery, no country club, no good bookstore. There is one cinema. The bars run to beer, the churches to fundamentalism: there was a synagogue once, but it closed about ten years ago. Western music flourishes in popular nightspots like Nashville West. The stores are mainly cut-rate ("Crawford's: The Biggest Country Store in the World"). The citizens for the most part are unskilled or semiskilled workers from the South and the Midwest. They find jobs in places ranging from the Clayton Manufacturing Co., a valve-making concern with more than 1,000 employees, to hundreds of small...