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Poor Fatigay, however, is browbeaten by his fiancée Amy, and falls on evil times. Selling matches outside the Ritz, he is rescued from verminous destitution by Emily, who by now has taken to driving a Hispano-Suiza (an equipage which dates the book to Michael Arlen times). The...
Behind the Glamourpuss. At 38, Leon ard Bernstein is not everybody, but very definitely Somebody ? a unique, perennial and very American Wunderkind. He is perfectly cast for the role. His lion head, swept with a sensuously flowing mane of black hair that in recent years has been greying at...
China's mighty T'ang Dynasty ruled China from the 7th to the 10th century A.D. Its invincible generals vanquished the Tartars and subdued the Turkish tribes to open the camel caravan route across central Asia. Chinese silk merchants returned bringing exotic wares and gifts-fiery Bactrian stallions...
With the delicate, fragrantly bland character of a pot of jasmine tea (which isn't everybody's dish), India's exotic Nehru poured himself-rosebud and all -into the nation's teacup, there for all to sniff and sip. After leaving Ike, he drove to the...
The resources of Widener Library are scarcely more helpful. There is about half a drawer of cards on "Bohemian" and most of the books are published in exotic Slavic languages. The inestimable William Dean Howells boldly commented: "To explain what Bohemian meant, or what Bohemia was... no one can quite...