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...brassy Manhattan nightclub, onetime Cinemactress Greta Garbo, 50. in her first such nocturnal foray within the memory of pub-crawlers present, popped up at a ringside table to catch the act of honey-throated Crooner Nat King (Forgive My Heart) Cole, whose autographed albums she likes to acquire under her favorite incognito identity of "Miss Brown...
...never been press-photographed milking a cow (and never will be if his luck holds), planned to make his big pitch for farm support in another fashion at the Democrats' Midwest farm conference in Des Moines over the weekend. Harriman made the trip, his first speaking foray into the Midwest since the political season opened, to outline a farm policy based on price supports at 90% of parity-a figure calculated to comfort farmers and discomfit Adlai Stevenson...
...Sadler's Wells foray into modernism so far has produced nothing to match the austere abstractions of the New York City Ballet, the Times Square gaieties and psychological thrillers of Ballet Theater. But Dame Ninette's charming people are truly at home and unsurpassed in the dazzling Never-Never-Land of romantic ballet...
...eyed Dick Croker was a crook. A highlight of his rule came when the Rev. Charles Parkhurst of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church disguised himself as a Bowery tough and undertook a personal investigation of New York's vice conditions. Dr. Parkhurst's fellow crusader on this foray reported later that Parkhurst had sat "with an unmoved face" in a brothel, watching a troupe of naked prostitutes play leapfrog while Madam Hattie Adams playfully tweaked his whiskers...
Having lived through Maidman's foray, Moore and the other Tiffany heirs were breathing a bit easier last week. They seemed calmed by the knowledge that even if Bulova wins control it will have to keep Tiffany's tradition and tone. And as Bulova's Simon said: "We have no intention of displacing the management...