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Lolling in his Cuban farmhouse, dressed only in shorts and a highball, Ernest Hemingway posed as a hairy-chested prop for a fashion picture in Vogue. Referring to him as "a famous presence in Cuba," the caption was mostly concerned with the model's lavender silk get-up and...
Turkeys & Bonnets. Moving on to El Morocco, the party supped on roast beef and Baked Alaska. The conversation and the champagne began to slop over a little. Society Photographer Hal Phyfe, a fastidious gourmet and a dear friend of Betty's, fluttered anxiously in the background lest photographers take...
...Get-Up & Go. The present editor made no pretense of being a Watterson. But well-mannered, well-intentioned George Barry Bingham, at 39 still boyishly handsome, had able lieutenants. The ablest of them, squirrel-cheeked Publisher Mark Foster Ethridge, is full of go-ahead schemes. The Washington bureau was expanding...
The Duke & Duchess of Windsor dropped in on the Salvation Army in Manhattan-he in a brown and tan get-up with a black derby, she in a grey suit, matching beanie, sable scarf, pearl necklace, diamond clip, aquamarine-&-sapphire earrings. When the Duke shed his topcoat, a nosey bystander...
Each Fridolinons is rich in chorines, costumes, tunes. But what draws the crowd is Author-Producer-Monologuist Fridolin himself. The grubby get-up expresses one side of Fridolin's appeal-the wistful urchin, the Chaplinesque underdog who fights for causes that can never succeed, and makes love to girls...