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Absent, too, was dapper, Paris-born Baron Nicolas De Gunzburg, 57, who. in this fashionable game of musical chairs, remains firmly seated behind his desk as fashion editor of Vogue. Nicky has sat there for 13 years, and no mere slip of a woman is likely to replace...
Photographers' stools clattered to the floor, women screamed, and Japan's pocket paparazzi crawled all over one another for a better shot. In the eye of the storm at Tokyo International Airport, the dapper figure stood unruffled, not even clenching a tiny fist. "Too much has been written about me being difficult and obstinate," crooned a newly mellow Frank Sinatra, 46, on the first stop in a two-month world tour to raise money for children's charities. "There's no new Sinatra. The difficulty has been on the other side." To prove it, Frankie actually...
Slowly, with dignity, dapper little Mongi Slim of Tunisia walked up the seven steps to the green marble rostrum and took his seat as president of the United Nations' 16th General Assembly. Before him were the diplomats who had elected him, a motley crowd of delegates from every corner of the world. "It is hard for me to express the great grief I experience," said President Slim, speaking in French. "The Secretary-General of the United Nations fell a victim to his duty. He died, one might say, on the battlefield of peace...
...paintings are from the U.S. His made-in-America flower bursts crowd the walls, halls, ante rooms and garage of his cubist suburban Brussels home. This week 85 that had been on loan for a one-collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Dotremont's canon: "Every painter turns...
Died. Cheng-ting T. Wang, 79, dapper Chinese statesman, high-ranking Rotarian, wealthy cotton and coal baron, polished diplomat, Y.M.C.A. official, who returned from Yale with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1911 to help topple the Manchu dynasts, served the struggling Republic of China as Foreign Minister three times between 1922 and 1931, Prime Minister for a month in 1922, Ambassador to the U.S. in 1937 and 1938, moved to Hong Kong after World War II because China was being "enslaved by Communism"; of cancer; in Hong Kong...