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Gentleman's Agreement. Earlier in the week, matters had not looked so good. One night-which became famed as "gentleman's agreement" night - the bright lights at Flushing beat down on a dapper, suave, self-assured diplomat with a red handkerchief flopping out of his coat pocket. This was Britain's Sir Hartley Shawcross, 44, a quick-witted prosecutor who had not yet learned that, at international conferences, haste makes waste, or worse...
...paintings were by a stage designer named Mstislav Dobujinsky. Dobujinsky, a dapper, silver-haired Lithuanian, has done ballet sets from Moscow to Manhattan-usually, as in his sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, filled with backdrops of toppling, cubistic cities. Last summer Dobujinsky found peace from the pasteboard, fast-whirling world of the theater in Newport's piles. "They are part of American history," he said, "I am very proud that I could paint them...
...well. One night last week the tabloids gave him his first big headlines in more than a decade-he had suffered a cerebral thrombosis. Thirty-four hours later, Death, as it must to all men, came to James John Walker, ex-mayor of New York, the dapper, silk-hatted symbol of the Fabulous Twenties...
...Harvard band won an easy victory over the Tiger tooters. The orthographical offering was "Hello Tiger," in big block letters, and the Crimson's musical offerings were far superior, in execution as well as just plain volume, to the Orange and Black efforts. The Princeton had slightly more dapper uniforms, though...
...Montreal, Alexander Navarro Fernandez (or was it Carlos Lados?) from Spain (or was it Austria?) was known as "Count Navarro." He was a dapper little man with hollow cheeks, a dab of grey mustache, and a heel-clicking ballroom manner. He lived here & there, but he liked best the expensive elegance of the Mount Royal Hotel...