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...They can lick envelopes all day long for Mrs. Hicks, for Ianella, Dapper O'Neil, Barry Hynes or Peter Hines, Kevin White, John McDonough or Nick Abraham. Then they can all run home and tell the boys on the corner how things are down at "the headquaaattters" and how Himself is a shuuuuurrr winner. The only ones that don't have fun are the ones working for Logue and John Winthrop Sears. They're so damn busy convincing themselves that they're saving the city from the crumbs, they don't have any fun, a'tall...
...Gaetano Luchese, 67, alias "Three-Finger Brown" (he lost his right forefinger in an accident), shadowy underworld figure named in 1963 by Gangland Songbird Joe Valachi as a ranking dope racketeer and presumed successor to Frank Costello as the Mafia's New York political fix-it man, a dapper native of Sicily whose only prison time, despite two murder arrests, was a short term on a 1922 stolen-car rap, all the while fiercely maintaining that his luxurious home and six-figure income was the product of honest hard work in his Seventh Avenue garment factories; after a long...
Born Romain de Tirtoff in St. Petersburg, Erté, an admiral's son, adopted a nom de palette based on his initials shortly after he arrived in Paris in 1912. Now a dapper 74, he is still going strong at his studio, turning out costumes and sets for avant-garde operas. He has also designed a ballet to be shown on CBS-TV this Christmas, and contributed seven huge floats to Flying Colors, a musical spectacular starring Maurice Chevalier that will open next week at Expo 67. Still addicted to the ornate fantasies...
...army, navy and air force and Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, his lifelong friend, brother-in-law and deputy commander-in-chief. Of course, the generals had not performed so brilliantly. They had convinced Nasser that Egyptian tanks could defeat the Israelis in two days. Boasted one dapper general just before the fighting broke out: "Montgomery was a good general, but a little cautious. Now as for me, I say attack, attack and again attack." He was last seen at a P.O.W. camp in Israel. When the shooting started, the troops at the front found themselves with no more than...
Fine Froth. Offenbach, a dapper dynamo with a prolific melodic gift and a boffo theatrical sense, made the French comic opera of his time into the granddaddy of today's musical comedy. In Orpheus, his first big success, he took what were then scandalous liberties with the Greek legend in order to parody Gluck's opera Orfeo et Euridice, to spoof solemn antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces...