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...Mortimer, sister of Mrs. Vincent Astor and Mrs. John Hay Whitney (ex-Mrs. Jimmy Roosevelt), again nosed out Mrs. Byron Foy, who sat firmly in second place, followed by Mrs. Millicent Rogers. Notable absence: Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, last year's third. Notable presence: Valentina, dress designer. The rest of the top ten, all past placers: Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, the Duchess of Windsor, Louise Macy Hopkins (whose husband Harry is chairman of Manhattan's garment industry), Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Mrs. Robert Sarnoff, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
...department) life began at 14, when he skipped school and took to the turf. As a fourth-rate jockey in Cuba (he still gallops his nags mornings), he learned what makes a horse tick. Over & above his practical schooling, he developed a strategic sixth sense for razor-sharp hay-burners. His secret lies in knowing when to nab horses that other trainers have brought to peak performance...
Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using, along with the Sinarquistas, as the basis for a budding rightist rebellion...
...Americans understand the game. The New York Times's Allison Danzig claims to be one of them. Of a swanky Long Island doubles tourney he wrote last week: "In the opening game [John Hay Whitney] . . . standing near the penthouse on the service side . . . drove the ball into the winning gallery on the hazard side for the deciding point. ... In the final game ... he boasted the ball to the main wall to find the dedans on his return of service. Then, changing sides to play off chases, he found the nick no less than three times with his service...
...faith and mind were approached in a very different way in two other books, The Yogi and the Commissar (TIME, June 4) by Arthur Koestler, brilliant ex-Communist novelist (Darkness at Noon), and The Perennial Philosophy (TIME, Oct. 1) by Novelist Aldous Huxley (Antic Hay, Brave New World). Koestler's book was a series of essays; its theme: modern man is caught between the choice of a philosophy of action (The Commissar) and a philosophy of quietism (The Yogi). Man's hope: a synthesis of the two. Author Koestler was more optimistic than hopeful...