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...stood in a vestibule which was painted pitch black. The only light came from the yellow eyes of a weird pagan god with two heads and eight arms sitting on a teakwood stand . . . A regular Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence...
...Hold My Cigar." For the next three hours the Grand Ballroom and three adjoining rooms rocked to mambos, waltzes, and sambas. In the East Foyer, pretty matrons sold raffle tickets on a 1955 Plymouth and the ball took on a fine Christmas spirit. When a photographer approached to take his picture, Veteran Actor Charles Coburn turned to a debutante. "Here," he said, "hold my cigar." Then he twinkled at the camera through his monocle. By 3 a.m., nearly all the young folks had gone off to El Morocco or the Stork Club for some serious dancing, and the last fathers...
Lamont's lobby, said a fifth anniversary visitor last year, looks a good deal like a theater foyer. But, unlike theaters, which try to keep their turnstiles spinning, each night Lamont turns its checkout system into an immense glass-and-marble bottleneck...
...portraiture. There were cityscapes of Boston and Cambridge in which the red bricks of Beacon Hill and Harvard glow with warmth, the Charles is mirrorlike and the winter sun, casting long shadows, is bright on the bare trees. His ruler-drawn interior, Vista from Within, suggests the antiseptic foyer of a brand-new medical building. Fransioli's neatness and light reminded proper Bostonians of their childhood, and Down East ladies cooed over familiar Maine scenes while they fingered Artist Fransioli's trompe-l'oeil detail...
President Nathan M. Pusey formally dedicated the modern Gordon McKay Laboratory in the foyer of the million-dollar structure at noon yesterday...