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...dress-designing career began at the age of twelve, when she whipped together a bright fuchsia number that did wonders for her superpudgy figure. The daughter of F. Byrne Austin, who was executive director of the War Claims Commission under Harry Truman, she put together her own gown for the Truman inaugural ball, caught the eye of Washington hostesses and began to design clothes for them...
...William McMahon arrived in Washington last week to discuss his country's alliance with the U.S. But who could concentrate on such matters when he brought along his wife, Sonia, a tall, smashing, 39-year-old blonde, who appeared at the White House in a white crepe evening gown that was slit up both sides, all the way from Melbourne to Brisbane? "I chose it for her," said McMahon, 63, a bachelor until six years ago. "I would never have been so daring," murmured Sonia, not very convincingly...
...rewards him with insubstantial quantities of dope. J. tries swiping a large shipment of heroin, but some hoods catch him, strip him and lock him in a bedroom while they mull over his ultimate fate. He escapes by the wildly funny expedient of donning a woman's dressing gown and putting on a display of perverse exhibitionism to attract the attention of some neighbors across the way. The police are called and cause so much confusion breaking into the apartment that J. has an easy chance...
...Horgan retains his penchant for elaborate scenic metamorphosis because "one object transformed into many different things is interesting." In Tom Paine he utilized a large blue cross that became, by turns, the sea, Marie Antoinette's gown and eventually a termite queen. "In Superstar," O'Horgan points out enthusiastically, "the altar is also the table for the Last Supper and the rock upon which Christ prays. Then it becomes a cart in which the soldiers push Jesus. That pushing around the stage creates energy...
...also come when the baggy woolen uniforms of old are giving over to the pajama-like stretch-nylon duds worn by the Pittsburgh Pirates. In Oakland, Vida Blue & Co. turn out in uniforms of Kelly green and California gold with kangaroo-leather spikes dyed wedding-gown white...