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Katherine Dunham, rhythmic Negro choreographer (Tropical Revue), stepped high into Manhattan's swank East Seventies, bought a $200,000, 30-room mansion which she will turn into a dancing school. Neighbors in the same block: the Frick museum and a Vanderbilt town house...
...strictly unofficial news of the meeting was that the committee would recommend and the leagues elect a new commissioner before the 1945 season opens in mid-April. The inner-sanctum dope was that National League President Ford Frick, onetime Colorado College assistant professor of English and longtime sports writer, had the inside track...
Three for One? Who would take his place? Jim Farley was a much-mentioned name. But the best bet was that no successor would be named for a year, that a three-man advisory council would take over temporarily: American League President William Harridge, National League President Ford Frick, Landis' secretary, Leslie O'Connor. It might well take three men to fill the Judge's shoes...
...skates, but not skating-tears feverishly around the stage as if simultaneously fleeing a cop and pursuing a burglar. The next moment, he streaks straight toward the audience, stops dead on his heels at the very lip of the stage. If rivaled by such other ice-comedy classics as Frick & Frack and The Four Bruises, Trenkler's act outranks them in one respect-it is done solo...
Later the Count fled to the U.S. under an assumed name. He was seen at the Frick Museum. "All the real or fanciful memories of his prolix love experiences strewn in disorder along the semiprecious beach of his life were now gathered together and arranged by his libido in the great hierarchical and opalescent vase of his sybaritic egoism." So he was glad to meet Veronica Stevens, who was now living in Palm Springs with Betka, the Polish girl...