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When he finished making Blue Skies, Fred Astaire thought he would stop dancing. He didn't want people to start asking, "What's that old duffer still hanging around for?" But last week the old duffer was hard at work at some new dances in a new setting...
...away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand to the simplest and cheapest French Canadian farmhouse...
...through, now that Blue Skies is completed. "I've had a long, long career," says the man who began hoofing in Omaha at five and was a Broadway star at 17. "There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying that Astaire is a hell of a dancer." Henceforth, he will probably produce movies and open a chain of schools...
Died. Eberhard Faber, 87, board chairman of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Co., perennial duffer who donated hundreds of golf trophies; in Manhattan...
...brown pullover sweater and gabardine slacks had lost the Presidency just two weeks ago. Now, like any other carefree vacationer, he spent his mornings playing better-than-duffer's golf at Georgia's famed luxurious Sea Island. He whipped long drives across the watery 13th, cracked out iron shots with careful deliberation. As he had said he would be, Tom Dewey was "deaf, dumb and blind" to politics...