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...sheltered against the weather at the Badminton Horse Trials. But it's nice to make new friends. With the Queen and Prince Philip off on a state visit to Switzerland, Andrew hosted a dinner in his Buckingham Palace apartment for a single guest: Carolyn Seaward, 19, a Devonshire lass who as Miss United Kingdom is best known for her measurements (35-24-35). "Absolutely wonderful," gushed Carolyn après he. "We just relaxed and listened to music and chatted. The Prince talked about my modeling career and a little about the navy...
...cross-country in the fall, And in the winter, indoor track No lazy girl this SoHo lass--A leader of the pack...
...surprisingly, the audience didn't seem anywhere nearly as bored as the cast with the whole thing. The story of "The Lass that Loved the Sailor" below her station--propelled by Gilbert's jabs at pomp and middle-class mediocrity--still fills an evening. But it was the deliberate self-conscious irony that made something out of Pinafore's obviously inane plot--the hundreds of little jokes in the script that combine to take all the starch out of the Victorian stuffed shirt...
...Harris, required a bit of educating. "In our original days." says she, "he addressed me regularly as 'young lady,' in a tone that I did not find necessarily overwhelming. Now he says 'Pat' or 'Madame Secretary.' " Schlesinger was similarly given to irritating Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps by calling her "lass," a practice he has also abandoned. The Green Book, the Social List of Washington, maintains extraordinarily strict rules. Separated couples like White House Aide Hamilton Jordan and his wife are excised from The Green Book by the register's mistress, Jean Shaw Murray, daughter of the late Carolyn Hagner Shaw...
...hold its own, too. Guys and Dolls relates two love stories: that of Nathan Detroit, operator of the "oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" and Miss Adelaide, his fiancee of 14 years; and that of big-time gambler Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown, a Salvation Army lass. Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls opens tonight, and plays this Fri. and Sat., and next weekend as well. At the Old Library in Leverett House, tickets at the door or at Holyoke Center...