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...bachelor apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. There he keeps in touch with Broadway and Hollywood through two phones in each of four rooms. Aside from mellowing him, success has awakened some tony tastes that amuse old acquaintances. He has recently taken to Homburgs, dark, dignified suits, fancier restaurants, and an occasional pose of world-weariness...
Your article on our muralist and human-flesh-fancier Diego Rivera is light, bright and gaudy. As entertainment-Trotsky, Paulette Goddard and canard faisande-it is superb. As a serious study on a very good painter who is never as great as you estimate him, it is lame, superficial, obvious, and in some aspects, totally false...
Four sophomores in Jordan House, rising in ire at what they termed "alienation of Smith's affections for Harvard," offered to prove to any Crimson sock fancier that they knit much more bejeweled patterns than Radcliffe does...
Since 1920, U.S. women have never lost an Olympic diving event; the present squad is reportedly fancier than ever. U.S. women gymnasts will be appearing in an event newly added to the Olympic agenda...
Died. Harry Twyford Peters, 66, coal merchant, latter-day popularizer of Currier & Ives, owner of the world's largest (5,000) collection of their prints; after long illness; in Manhattan. Collector Peters, also a fancier of horses & hounds, was Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's famed Meadow Brook Club and U.S. dean of M.F.H.s when he retired...