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...minutes, to the sound of shrieking tires and intermittent gunfire, police played hare & hounds with a 1954 green Oldsmobile. In it the cops claimed to have got a momentary view of Sánchez Arango, dapper in a white suit and sporting a brand-new mustache. Just as a patrol car closed in behind the Olds, an older Buick got in the way, neatly blocked the police out of play, and the Olds disappeared in a burst of speed...
...president of the High Authority of the European Coal & Steel Community, Jean Monnet was in Washington seeking a little help for the six-nation Schuman Plan combine, which is the only supranational organization now doing business in Europe.* Dapper, hard-working Monnet is an idealist-he wants a united Europe-who talks in practical plans. Around a large oval table in the State Department, Monnet and his advisers conferred with Secretary of State Dulles and Treasury Secretary Humphrey...
Fame & Fortune. Now 33, Mathieu has already made his fame in Europe, sells everything he paints. Slim, dapper, cultivated, he occupies a town house furnished with fine Gothic furniture and Persian carpets, in the fashionable La Muette section of Paris. He whips out small paintings in as little as ten minutes, and even his huge pictures require no more than a couple of hours to paint. This, as Mathieu is frank to point out, leaves him "lots of time for other activi ties . . . I'm keenly interested in modern music, philosophy, mathematics, poetry, literature...
Something for the Pigeons. All the while. Sadakichi sharpened the talent for gratuitous insult that later so endeared him to his Hollywood buddies. When he met dapper Industrialist Henry Clay Frick, he told him to write his autobiography and call it The Tom Thumb of the Coke Ovens. Of some blueprints of Architect Stanford White he said: "To be improved upon only by pigeons, after the drawings become buildings." One figure escaped his misanthropic venom: Mary Baker Eddy. He called the founder of Christian Science "the greatest spiritual expression of the century," and was writing a verse drama about...
George K. Arthur (real name: Arthur G. Brest), dapper, London-born producer of Martin and The Stranger, is an oldtimer in films. He and the late Karl Dane were a popular brain 11. brawn Hollywood comedy team during the silent '205 (The Rookie, All at Sea). His acting career nipped by the transition to sound, Arthur turned promoter, ran a one-man advertising agency...