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...sister editions in London and Paris, and won the Legion of Honor from a French government grateful for her grooming of Dame Fashion. Occasionally, Fashion defied Chase: her crusade against open-toed shoes ("inappropriate, unsightly, dirty") got nowhere, and her scorn failed to stop the rise of the gaunt-cheeked fashion model. "I've never seen so many slatterns in my life," she once huffed, flipping through Vogue...
...better part of two days last week. India's gaunt, silver-maned V. K. Krishna Menon waved his arms, flashed his eyes and showered the U.N. Security Council with words. When the torrent finally petered out, the exhausted Menon held the alltime U.N. record for a single speech-7 hours 48 minutes. It was a performance worthy of a Southern Senator, and had a purpose familiar to any Southern filibusterer hoping to frustrate the majority will. Menon was out to stall Security Council proceedings while India's moralizing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru completed India's illegal annexation...
Died. Ralph Barton Perry, 80, gaunt, horn-rimmed humanist and longtime (1913-46) professor of philosophy at Harvard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for The Thought and Character of William James; near Boston. A liberal, individualist and internationalist. Philosopher Perry rejected as "presumptuous and foolish" the notion of God as "a kindly indulgence at the seat of cosmic control," was alternately gloomy and optimistic about the U.S.'s future, concluded that its strength lies in its bedrock foundation of puritanism and democracy...
...eyed cinemactresses with bulging purses-Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren and Oscar-winning Anna Magnani-disrespectfully submitted their yearly earnings reports. Poor Gina claimed to have taken in $48,000, hard-pressed Sophia a mere $25,600, impoverished Anna a pathetic $5,600. After gallantly taking the ladies' gaunt figures as gospel, the revenooers, just for fun, totted up their own estimates: Gina, $130,000; Sophia, $97,000; Anna...
Died. Guido Cantelli, 36, gaunt, brilliant Italian conductor, en route to New York for an American concert series and a dinner engagement with his friend and mentor, 89-year-old Arturo Toscanini; in the crash of an Italian airliner shortly after its take-off from Paris. At 25, Cantelli was the youngest conductor ever to lead Milan's famed La Scala orchestra, of which he was appointed permanent conductor a fortnight ago. Toscanini's fond verdict: "He conducts like...