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Handsome Arthur Kinsolving was nicknamed "Tui" (Portuguese diminutive for Arthur) while his father, the Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was serving as first Episcopal Bishop of Brazil. Big Tui has served as chaplain at West Point (six years), as dean of Long Island's Cathedral of the Incarnation, as rector of Pittsburgh's Calvary Church...
...wholly convincing. Yet there is far more to be grateful for than to forgive, notably the work of Zachary Scott; of Jean Renoir, who wrote as well as directed it (the film is based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand, by George Sessions Perry); and of Photographer Lucien Andriot...
Since the world of fashion cannot, at the moment, visit Paris, Paris intends to visit the world. Last week 35 leading couturieres (Schiaparelli, Lucille, Lucien Lelong, et al.) were showing off their latest concoctions in advance of an international tour. The 200 models (soon to visit the U.S., Britain and South America) were 18-inch wire dolls. Ace Artists Jean Cocteau and Christian ("Bébé") Berard painted the miniature sets. To help revive its fashion industry, Paris launched the show with full fanfare-in the Louvre...
...French-it lasted three nights. The first night, a sort of benefit running to diamonds rather than dog tags, was the biggest social event in Paris since the liberation. In a whirl of color, General Joseph-Pierre Koenig, the British Ambassador and Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Prince Achille Murat. Lucien Lelong and a host of other celebrities drank champagne at $30 a bottle, netted the Canteen almost...
...couture never left Paris, although Berlin tried hard to seduce it. Lucien Lelong, prewar president of the Couturiers' Association finally argued the Germans into letting the couture stay in Paris on the ground that postwar German Europe would not otherwise be able to compete successfully against U.S. designers. Thus 60 Paris dressmakers, employing directly 15,000 midinettes and indirectly a million makers of dress materials, were allowed to fashion style in full freedom...