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...Heiress Barbara Mutton tumbled and broke her left ankle. At her side, bearing up nobly, Rubi was consoled a bit on hearing that the Dominican Republic had reinstalled him at his Paris diplomatic post, which had been yanked out from under him last month. To cheer Porfirio further, the Custom Tailors Guild of America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official: "Whatever else may be said about him, Mr. Rubirosa is, indeed, perfection itself in sartorial matters . . . The nation...
...Willys Motors announced a new two-passenger sports car, the Kaiser Darrin 161, designed by Howard A. Darrin, who has done cars for Packard and Lincoln as well as custom cars for Rita Hayworth and Errol Flynn. Like Chevrolet's Corvette, the Darrin 161 has a plastic body that weighs but 300 lbs. (total weight: 2,175 lbs.). Powered by a six-cylinder, 90-h.p. engine, it has six forward speeds and doors that slide into the front fenders instead of opening outward. Factory list price...
Carrying on a year-end custom established in 1946, Pollster George Gallup last week sent his interviewers out to ask a cross section of the U.S. public: "What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire the most?" The most admired, by a wide margin: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Winner Eisenhower (who also was top man in 1952) had as many votes as the combined total of the next two men on the list-Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Other high-ranking also-rans: Harry S. Truman, Adlai...
...first real picture magazine in the U.S. He played a key part in the conception of LIFE, "of which he was a senior editor from Volume 1, No. 1 (1936). With imagination and good taste, he helped LIFE attain the distinctive pictorial reflection of American culture and custom, fact and fun, which became a major part of LIFE'S journalistic heritage. He served as LIFE'S second managing editor from 1944 to 1947, thereafter as chairman of its board of editors. From this post he retired last summer for reasons of health...
Presidents of the eight Ivy Group colleges met at the University Club in New York Dec. 18th, but in accord with usual custom no announcements were issued as to what went on behind the closed doors...