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HALL was born in 1871 to a Presbyterian minister who seems also to have been an ardent member of the Ku Klux Klan, and when he arrived in New Orleans, a friend of his later remembered, he was "the handsomest young man in all New Orleans...the best dressed man, who set the fashion for the male population...the perfect Southern gentleman." At around that time, he worked full-time in an administrative post called adjutant general for the United Confederate Veterans, an organization that had a hard time extracting from the Civil War anything worthy of nostagia. It groped...
...good part of the world now recognizes that Western European designers are the very best practitioners of the art. Today's tableware from Scandinavia, watches from Switzerland, furniture and automobiles from Italy and clothing from France are, in the opinion of many authorities, the pre-eminent and handsomest products in their fields (see color pages...
Misspent Youth. The World of Chess, by International Master Anthony Saidy and Senior Master Norman Lessing, is the handsomest and most informative chess picture book ever produced. Its illustrations include Persian paintings, medieval manuscripts, 18th century court scenes, 20th century abstractions, a few sly cartoons and some arresting photographs of the strange cold men who become grand masters...
...Budget Watchers: The Deerfield (Mass.) Inn, where weekenders can "nod off in Colonial bliss" in a $10 double room after a day touring one of New England's handsomest villages...
...Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes) looked cheaper and more cursory than its predecessor, but thanks to some razzle-dazzle direction by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone), and most especially to the superb cinematography of Bruce Surtees, Conquest is the handsomest of the lot. It has the same storybook gusto and bizarre pageantry as the original. The setting is the America of 1991, when a mysterious virus has wiped out all household pets. Apes have taken the place of dogs and cats and have been trained to perform menial tasks (filing...