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Partisan Aim. The latest old Etonian to call public attention to the soup stains on the old school tie is 24-year-old David Benedictus. Brought out in England last June to coincide with the date of the school's fanciest annual party (from which it takes its title), the book caused a small but predictable stir. Liberal reviewers used it to launch an impassioned appeal for school reform. Conservative critics, many of them older Etonians than the author, shrilly denounced him for sensationalism. They were offended by an incident in which a student sells his handsome younger brother...
...benefit in memory of Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, who died in a plane crash last year). As usual, the crowd vied in splendor with the mannequins displaying the new summer modes. Mmes. William Woodward, George F. Baker, Frederick Gushing and John R. Fell turned out with their fanciest friends, some sporting the new ascetic Marienbad coiffure, and all dressed to the nines. But this was a fashion show with a difference. For it demonstrated that not only fashion but fashion editors can change...
Family Style. With studied informality, the Donner Trail Ranch manages to be both the fanciest and the folksiest in the Reno area. The friends and relatives who have taken turns keeping Mary company join her for dinner served family style, with everyone seated around a big table to eat hearty, ranch-hand's food. All is clapboard-clean and comfortable, and the easy, friendly pace has had its benign effect on Mary. Friends say that she looks wonderful...
...hope that Mrs. Erickson might leave the treasure to them, says Director Ric Brown of Los Angeles' County Museum, "museum directors all over the world have been doing the fanciest snake dances about this picture." But, following the pattern of her husband's will, Mrs. Erickson divided her estate into 90 parts, and that meant that almost all the paintings had to be sold. For four months, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries and London's Sotheby's and Christie's have been bidding for the job. Last week it went to Parke-Bernet, whose...
...Gift wrappings worth some $150 million will be bought to sheathe Christmas presents this year. Never has the U.S. family (which last Yuletide spent an average $3.17 on wrappings) had a wider choice in tissue and bows, from the plainest papers at 25 tissue sheets for 25? to the fanciest at $1 a sheet. All this spending for wrapping will provide a fine Christmas present for Chicago Printed String Co. With a multicolored array of 185 different kinds of paper and some 3,000 varieties and sizes of ribbon, it claims to be the biggest in the fast-growing industry...