Word: fitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oldtime Cinemactress Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, 1927) and Designer-Husband Gilbert Adrian arrived home safe & sound after a six-week safari through Darkest Africa, just in time to catch a breathless Vogue preview of their trip: "Apart from several happy forays into Abercrombie & Fitch's Dr. Livingstone department, neither of the Adrians had had any experience as explorers. Their plans, not to shoot, but, rather, to admire the animals ('an enormous love of animals is our principal motive') modified the equipment situation somewhat . . . There would be a few days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed...
...Venice. Finicky Cole Porter also likes a practical joke, if it is on the elaborate side. In the '20s, he and Elsa Maxwell hornswoggled U.S. society in Paris into believing in the existence of a fictitious wealthy couple from Oklahoma named Fitch, who were "doing" the Continent. They planted newspaper stories about the Fitches, and even concocted an art exhibition by Mrs. Fitch, for which Jean Cocteau and others forged paintings. The night bearded Monty Woolley opened in Manhattan in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Porter gave a party for him. The host was the last to arrive...
Karl Terzaghi, professor of the Practice of Civil Engineering, will receive the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for his work on a paper on shipways at the three day convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers starting tomorrow in New York...
Richard Edelman, Marvin Stern, and Malcolm Bloch have been named to the entertainment committee while Myron Finer, Norman Dickter, and Raymond Fitch will handle the decorations. The committee's next dance will be the Yale Dater, with Stan Harris' orchestra playing. Tickets go on sale tomorrow and only a limited number will be available...
Others in the 12-member cast are John A. Seiler '50 as Amphytrion, Raymond Fitch '52 as Sosle, and Nicholas Vervon '50 as the Warrior...