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Hearstling Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, who is a natty dresser, named 1950's Worst Dressed Men of the World. Top of the list: Prince Aly Khan, for going to the races in yellow socks, orange shoes and a green tie. A close sec ond: Texas' Senator Tom Connolly (for looking "like a country bumpkin" while heading for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee). Runners-up: Manhattan Socialite Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (for not buying a new hat "in the last twelve years"); Wrestler Gorgeous George (chiefly for his peroxide curls...
...Carol the new compliment of envy. A famous musical-comedy star who until recently thought Carol was "too cute for words" now greets her with a frosty, feline smile. Carol loves every bit of it. The only real cloud still left on her horizon is the opinion of her dresser, who once worked for impeccable, ladylike Cornelia Otis Skinner. Says Broadway's new star: "She thinks I'm a slob...
Mikel (W), defeated Foster, 3-2; Nawn (H), defeated Muller, 3-1; Allen (W), defeated Bacon, 3-1; Dresser (W), defeated Plimpton, 3-1; Flagg (H), defeated Pichinson, 3-1; Thomas (W), defeated Hoar, 3-1; Tumain (W), defeated Harding, 3-1; Kneass (W), defeated Richardson, 3-1, Symmes (H), defeated Kent...
Andrei Gromyko, the sharpest dresser of them all according to T & C, "commits the sartorial crime of tying his evening bow behind the points of his wing collar. He also affects the American habit of pressing a crease in his sleeve." Ex-Ambassador Maisky "makes the mistake of fastening his bottom waistcoat button" -a mistake, admits T & C, that might be accounted for by the class-conscious fact that "the leave-it-undone style was created by royalty...
Although Charlie de Bretteville grew up surrounded by Spreckelses (his aunt married the late Adolph B. Spreckels, Claus's son), he picked up none of their playboy antics. A sharp dresser with an even sharper golf game (the low 70s), De Bretteville was a varsity swimmer and golfer at Stanford, spent a year at the Harvard Business