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...this might be tiresomely kookie, were it not for Alvin Duskin, 30, founder and chairman of the Board of Fellows (which he calls "a legal fiction for the benefit of the state"). Duskin looks and acts quite square. His face is scrubbed, his shoes polished, his tie neatly knotted. He has a wife, three children, a house with a maid. But if he is condescending toward "this beatnik thing," Duskin remains a freewheeling teacher...
...Well, let's have-like a class." said Duskin one recent afternoon. Subject: materialism. In ambled Emerson's 13 summer students-mussed boys in need of haircuts (one beard), and ethereal girls in need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef broth, casaba melon. Duskin snapped them awake: "I don't allow irrelevant statements. Your comments must either advance my thought or contradict it." Firmly in control, Duskin hammered his theme-the dispassion of Homer. "Remember," he said, "Helen makes it in the end. She falls back on Menelaus...
...other notable Quiz Kids. Jack Lucal, 25, is studying to be a Jesuit priest; Harve Fischman, 21, has just graduated from UCLA where he wrote, directed and acted in the senior class play; Claude Brenner, 23, does aeronautical engineering research at M.I.T.; Ruthie Duskin, 18, already has one book to her credit (Chemi, the Magician), and took top honors at Northwestern's School of Journalism. Smylla Brind, 24. changed her name to Vanessa Brown and has appeared as a bright-looking ingenue in such movies as The Late George Apley and The Heiress...
Although the Kids (Richard Williams, 13; Harve Fischman, 12; Ruthie Duskin, 8; Joel Kupperman, 6) won in a walk, the victory was no great credit to them or to their sponsors. Most of the questions were pedantically dull, and neither side made a respectable showing. No one knew what an "isometric equatorial projection of a loxodromic curve" was, or seemed to care...
...still her largest, wholesale customer, California's I. Magnin chain of high falutin women's specialty shops. Within a few years, stores like Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper...