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...Anderson hoped, the voters would bless the Republicans for the surplus-or whether, as an aftermath of big spending promises made during the campaign, the surplus might some day wind up in the Smithsonian with such artifacts of the good old days as Dolley Madison's inauguration gown and the Spirit of St. Louis...
...disprove the Scriptures according to Fox, which make her a neophyte priestess of Chemosh, the child-devouring stone divinity. This gives Elana Eden, the dark-eyed Israeli actress who plays Ruth, a chance to show that she is prettily put together, since Hollywood's standard pagan-priestess gown is an off-the-shoulder number. The device also allows Writer Corwin to add a fairly effective sermon on prejudice to the Bible's skeletal story of filial devotion...
...opera that evening, the gown and stole were a sensation. Next day, it was unpinned and placed back...
...most durable moths of Manhattan society, Nightlifer Hope Hampton, 60 (within an order of magnitude), poured herself into a yellow chiffon gown encrusted and strung with 41 clusters and strings of precious rocks borrowed from a New York jeweler. The spectacular finery, reportedly worth $1,000,000, and billed as the world's most costly dress, was designed by Couturiere Livia Sylva. Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison. Hunch's master of ceremonies, Merv Griffin, suggested...
...Finn of then and all time. Like a big frog always about to make a prizewinning jump, Sam Clemens stood out against his background: as a young man with lean cheeks, darkish hair and misleadingly humorless eyes, or as a snow-headed Connecticut Yankee, strutting in the cap and gown he had worn when Oxford University conferred upon him a Litt. D.: "I like the degree-but I'm crazy about the clothes...