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When the great day comes for Benjy to go to school. Mummy is so thrilled that she puts on her college cap and gown and skips along the sidewalk with Benjy, singing her college song. To his "School Mummy," as he calls his teacher. Benjy is unbearably good, too. He pledges allegiance to the flag twice, and he tells teacher things she might not otherwise know-like which kid did the whispering...
...they call themselves the "Boulangerie"-were gathered in all parts of the world last week to celebrate her 70 birthday. At the split-level chalet of Conductor Igor Markevitch, in the Swiss Alps near Montreux, "chère Nadia" herself,-white-haired, prim as ever in a black evening gown, held court before such famous ex-pupils as Pianist Clara Haskil, Cellist Pierre Fournier, Composer Darius Milhaud...
...leader of a delegation of five Moroccan women to the fourth congress of the Pan-Arab Women's Federation in Damascus, smoking cigarettes with Continental casualness in a decolleté, skin-tight gown which had the other 300 delegates from nine Arab countries* goggling, the princess tucked one shapely foot under her and discussed her favorite topics: divorce and the veil. Morocco, she said, will soon have a law requiring men to produce legitimate reasons for a divorce instead of just telling a woman three times to go away. "Of course," she added, "we cannot forbid divorce, and besides...
...businessman with a doll-like wife in $10,000 worth of gown and gems, who raged at Fast: "So what if 25,000 people died in Hungary! You've got to pay a price for this kind of thing. You're yellow! Yellow! Yellow...
Next day when Diem's C-47 touched down at Bangkok's spick-and-span military airport, the President disembarked to review the waiting honor guard, clad instead in his national Vietnamese dress: blue silk mandarin gown and black Tonkinese turban. The mandarin gown reflected more than a mere impulsive presidential whim: it symbolized a complicated and many-faceted change that has come about in President Diem's political thinking in recent months...