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...gussied up in a blonde wig, an imitation tigerskin cape and a patterned gown that made the New York Botanical Garden seem like the Mojave Desert, Elsa Maxwell, 78, put on the biggest fountain scene since Zelda Fitzgerald wowed them in the '20s with her midnight dips in the pool outside Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Planted before a fountain set up in the Plaza's ballroom for the Renaissance Ball, a society smash for the benefit of Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings...
...Paul's Macalester College is a Presbyterian-linked liberal arts school with 1,700 students, mostly from Minnesota. It has some pleasant distinctions: a 22-member bagpipe band in Macalester clan kilts, a 40-acre campus along swank Summit Avenue, where Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up. But none of this explains the school's greatest claim to fame. In number of National Merit Scholars, a status symbol among U.S. colleges, little Macalester is year after year among the top ten campuses in the nation...
...some public prominence, and the Pulitzer choices frequently produce lively disputes. Scarcely anyone besides Josephine Johnson, the author of a sensitive but minor novel entitled Now in November, could understand why Miss Johnson won the 1935 fiction prize in a year that also saw publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. Ernest Hemingway had to wait until 1953 to win his first Pulitzer, with The Old Man and the Sea, having previously missed with two American classics (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms). Some...
...Scott Fitzgerald, Turnbull...
...Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull. A meticulous, sensitive biography of the writer who invented the Jazz Age and the Lost Generation, poured himself down the drain with the dregs of martinis, and is now riding a wave of posthumous popularity...