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Between courses, in truly Lucullan meals, the diner may be served a bit of sherbet "to refresh the palate." Yet in feasting on art, the viewer usually plunges from room to room, and his retinas, unrefreshed between rich courses, cry for cool relief. Such, at least, seems to be the art-gastronomy theory of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design; as the architect of a new museum in the south of France, he solves this and a number of other gallerygoers' problems...
...earl dropped $280,000, calmly borrowed another $280,000 and recouped $5,600. When a blonde baroness in a skintight red dress left the chemmy table one morning last week after dropping $5,600, she yawned: "Lovely evening, really." Lured by cut-rate Lucullan food (price of dinner: $2.50) and free breakfast with champagne, more than 1,200 top-drawer Britons have joined the club, which Tim Holland modestly calls a "gold mine." Last week, after his casino had been running only ten days. Crocky's new master had already earned the Biblical encomium pinned on Fishmonger Crockford...
...spit like an alley cat. The Red Sox's General Manager Joe Cronin made a hasty diagnosis, this time prescribed a generous dollop of a tested home remedy. He fined Ted $5,000. One of the best batters in baseball history had finally matched Babe Ruth, whose Lucullan feats with hot dogs, soda pop, fast women and the old bubbly earned the Babe the same fine back...
...Hollywood has added are the production values of CinemaScope 55 and De Luxe color. Except for a few obviously toy boats in the opening shot, each scene appears built to a supercolossal scale, and the film's small passions are played out amid fountained gardens, marble audience halls, Lucullan bedrooms and latticed chambers...
...that Freshman Advisers, like Departmental tutors, are in a unique position to remind students, on the part of the Faculty, that there is more to a Harvard education than so many hour examinations. But consideration for the many Freshmen I have not treated and shall not treat in the Lucullan manner your article implied requires me to explain publicity that, in my opinion, "lubrication" (as you put it) is not the only alternative to lucubration. Harlan P. Hanson, Director, Program of Advanced Standing