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...Catholic laymen, and in 1937 he visited the Vatican. The next year he became a papal privy chamberlain. With his wife, who had once hung big washings on East Side clotheslines, he now lived handsomely on Fifth Avenue, resplendent in pin-striped double-breasted suits, piped vests, spats and fawn-colored derbies...
...orchestra of Paris' Folies Bergères, Flutist Barrère spent nearly 40 years in the U.S., playing in Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, touring with the Barrere Little Symphony, and teaching a whole generation of younger U.S. flutists. He affected an imperial beard, fawn-colored trousers, a Prince Albert and an assortment of exotic flutes made of silver, gold and platinum, valued as high as $3,000 apiece...
Gone but not forgotten: Lt. Charlie, of course, and gifts of advice ... J. Anton and pointed cynicism ... weeks free from 1600 meetings ... Hanson's iteration and re-iteration ... snow ... 6c airmail stamps ... meat on Wednesday ... student club singsongs ... Herilhy's "fawn the battalion" ... Kolker and "my name is Marvin J." ... And the case of champagne to: Lt. Beckham, attaining the senile age of 24 come 18 April ... Student Club Saturday night struggles ... Webb, Van Housen, Hope, Bergen, et al, for getting things done ... Captain MacIntosh for our 13-day leave ... and those one hundred iron men on their...
...from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing two fawn-fast girl runners, Venus and Zena, usually win. But mere speed is not enough for the real scoops. They come as reward, or as lightning surprise...
Bambi is the brown-eyed, white-scutted fawn of Felix Salten's somewhat candied forest idyl. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory. Bambi's rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops...