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...onetime protege of Dilworth's and an official in his administration. Like the mayor, City Controller Alexander Hemphill, 40, is a well-heeled blueblood with an Ivy League background (University of Pennsylvania '43). The father of seven, he is the godfather of a Dilworth grandchild, and a fancier of Utrillo and Rouault prints. He also takes his watchdog job as city controller seriously -so seriously that when he decided to run for election in 1957, Dilworth tried to persuade him to withdraw. Says Hemphill: "I just told him to go to hell...
...Fancier Than Scarlett's. To go with the smashable fashions are numerous accessories, the newest and most practical using something called Curon, a thin, transparent, foam-plastic layer that is laminated to wool or worsted jersey as an interlining. Also among space-saving accessories: smashable turbans, many studded with creaseproof beads and fringe; wash-and-wear embroidered lingerie, fancier by far than Scarlett's; Italian nylon drip-dry raincoats, which actually may be more wrinkle than rainproof; tiny, collapsible umbrellas that look like pistols and shoot up almost as quickly...
...unwritten law that U.S. Presidents cannot be seen hanging around race tracks. For eight years, while he was President, Dwight D. Eisenhower hewed to convention. But last week, Horse Fancier Eisenhower (he has quarter horses at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm) stood in the rain at New York's Belmont Park with 51,585 other breed improvers to watch the 93rd running of the Belmont Stakes. For Ike, as for everyone else, the star attraction was Carry Back-a little, long-tailed colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and needed only the Belmont to become the first...
...final judging for best in show, Sister was matched against a bigger, white miniature poodle, a Scottish terrier, a parti-colored cocker, a dachshund and a boxer. After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...
...Washington's memory-bourbon, Scotch, vodka, champagne, martinis, and Cokes for the kids. Washington Star Reporter Betty Beale was so startled that she wrote a story next day listing all the shattered precedents. Among them: newsmen were allowed to mingle with guests, hors d'oeuvres were fancier than ever, guests were welcomed as soon as they arrived instead of waiting in a corridor, four abreast, for a formal presidential handshake. Even routine ceremony had a new style. Jacqueline Kennedy opened the Heart Fund drive by posing with twin beneficiaries of heart surgery, Donna and Debbie Horst, 6. When...