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Newest name to be linked with Eliza beth Taylor is, of all people, Vincent Van Gogh. Liz's yen for the finer things crept into the news when California Art Dealer Francis Taylor, representing his daughter, traipsed off to Sotheby's London auction rooms and paid $257,600 for a Van Gogh landscape, View of the Asylum and Chapel of St. Remy. Already on loan from Liz to the Los Angeles Museum are a Renoir, a Cassatt, a Modigliani, a Rouault and a Frans Hals...
Critics will never admit it, and the reader's good sense denies it, but sometimes bad writing is best. Good writing would never have produced Eliza crossing the ice. Scarlet and Rhett. Ivanhoe. Amber, James Bond, Arrowsmith, Queeg's ball bearings, or any of the Bobbsey twins. The best and most enjoyable bad writing ever done by an American is Hemingway's in To Have and Have Not, but when some anthologist pastes together the definitive collection of Great Moments from Bad Novels, he should give a secondary dedication, at least, to Frederic Wakeman...
...recall squidging techniques from their childhood days. But the squop shot is entirely new to them, and on the tour the usual death knell to a strong U.S. squidging attack was the glad British cry, "Well squopped!" The English winkers - Freeman. 23, Philip Moore, 21, David Willis, 23, and Eliza beth King, 22 - found most U.S. opposition easy, but the easiest was the team of New York Giants, including Offensive Tackle Roosevelt Brown and Halfback Bob Gaiters. The match was defaulted by the Giants. "We apparently were too frightening in our warmup." said Free man. "Brown would have been putty...
...Notorious Landlady. "Oyme jus' the parlor mide," says Kim Novak in her best Berlitz cockney. "Are you a sleep-in maid?" asks arch Jack Lemmon, with his eyes doing the twist. "Coo, yew Yanks do kum raht aout wiv it, don't yew?" wuffles the new Eliza Doolittle. "Well, most of it, anyway," says Lemmon, a film comedian who knows how to throw away a line before it deserts...
Diana Gisolfi, fine arts; Jane L. Goldsmith, Slavic languages & literatures; Emily L. Hartshorne, history; Michele Kaufman, astronomy; Eliza D. Kellogg, English; Judith G. Kirshner, English; Mrs. Marjorie K. McIntosh, history; Susanne L. Mack, history & literature; Mrs. Susan K. Matisoff, Far Eastern languages...