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Mrs. Margaret Van Alen Bruguiere, the summer colony's grande dame, still lives in her 50-room "cottage," Wake-hurst, surrounded by a fortune in art and a dozen servants. Bailey's Beach, where the memberships pass from father to son, is still "the most exclusive swimming hole...
Rumbling Thunder. Conductor Robert Craft and Director Bodo Igesz made the most of the fact that Cardillac is swifter and more dramatic than Hin demith's later operas. The elements cooperated too: distant thunder rumbled over the Rio Grande Valley as a vengeful Paris mob killed Cardillac, and through...
Such folksy Texas tales are a delightful leavening in this book, squeezed in between recipes for red corncob jelly and descriptions of what it is like to shoot the narrow, roaring rapids on the Rio Grande. After 20 books (Beyond the High Himalayas, A Wilderness Bill of Rights), Author Douglas...
No longer need tourists humble themselves before la grande indifférence that Parisians traditionally inflict on visitors. By the simple expedient of renting a lovely French aristocrat, the froideur turns to fun, and the surly city becomes all smiles and elegance.
Americans are reminded almost daily of the Negro's checkered progress toward equality. Seldom, by contrast, are they apprised of the social and economic lag that afflicts the nation's second largest disadvantaged minority: the 4,677,000 Mexican-Americans of the U.S. Southwest-proud, poor and increasingly...