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Famous for her bizarre creations in the way of hats and gowns, Mme. Schiaparelli nominated for her favorite men's attire plain, old, dependable tweeds. "But not the lifeless ones," she cautioned, "and a good bright tie makes one feel so good...
Unfortunately, Glenn's record doesn't fit as well as it might. While beautifully arranged, with good sax and trumpet solos, and obviously painstaking rehearsal, the rendition is completely dead and lifeless. The reason is quite simple: Glenn Miler has an eight man brass section and a five man sax section. To provide life for a band that size would require a rhythm section of geniuses--and Glenn's rhythm men are just competent musicians, no more...
...David Silberman showed Cinemactor Mitchell the Christ along with some modern paintings (Mitchell hitherto had bought only moderns). His eye hit the Rembrandt and stayed there. "I saw something in that Christ's face I hadn't seen before," said he. "It wasn't an emaciated, lifeless symbol of a man. It was a human, bewildered Christ. This Christ was real flesh and blood and soul." For that flesh and blood and soul Tom Mitchell plunked down about...
...years of nurture to be reconciled With darkened eyes reflecting lifeless light...
...sugar freighter Olivegrove, 200 miles southwest of Bantry, Ireland. This captain ordered the freighter to heave to (by shots over her bow), and to disembark her men in lifeboats. He then lay to, checked the castaways' compass, offered them a tow toward the nearest land. After scuttling the lifeless Olivegrove with one well-aimed torpedo, he stood by her survivors for nine hours until help neared (U. S. liner Washington). To attract it, he put lights on the lifeboats and fired two red rockets before taking his tactful leave...