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...into a limousine carrying Gary Grant, 64. The accident mashed the priceless Grant nose, bruised his expensive ribs, and dispatched the actor for nearly a week's stay at St. John's Hospital, where he shared a semiprivate room with the limousine's driver. Also hospitalized: Gratia von Furstenberg, 23, a cousin of Actress Betsy von Furstenberg, who was accompanying Grant to the airport to see him off, and wound up at St. John's instead with a fractured leg and collarbone. Said Cary: "I feel like a Grade B movie...
...medium an ideal outlet for free-floating artiness or supererogatory libidinousness. There was in fact at least one instance in which a director became so enamored of his leading lady that he wrote a nude love scene into the script and then played the male lead himself: ars gratia concupiscentis...
...second quarter, Harvard took the stage to the relief of most right-thinking music fans in the audience. Elliot Forbes drew at least two peerless moments out of his well-coached squad. Diffusa Est Gratia by Nanino approached a plane of spiritual majesty, especially during those exquisite final measures which required impressive breath control. In addition, Milhaud's setting of the twenty-first psalm was presented splendidly, in spite of its truly difficult chord patterns...
...real standards by which to judge more recent classes, and must confine themselves to their predictions and prophetical calculations, which in this case so pitifully deceived them. It were better that they should look upon such things in which the Class of 1961 has excelled, such as (exempla gratia) football and crew. Furthermore, as Ecclesiastes warned, much study is a weariness of the flesh (12:12), and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow (1:18). And, as St. Paul has said (I. Cor. 9:25), speaking of Olympic athletes, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate...
...selling, satirical commercial had been tried before, and except for a few engaging specimens such as Bert and Harry Piel of Piel's Beer, had fallen into limbo. Stan was undeterred. Incorporating himself in Los Angeles as Freberg, Ltd. ("but not very"), he took a Latin motto ("Ars gratia pecuniae"-Art for money's sake) and put his talents on the market ("bizarre sales ideas, at a bizarre fee; but worth...