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...White House. If there was one Eisenhower accomplishment that Democrats and Republicans could agree on, it was that a stern White House code-far tougher than the code of congressional politics that Harry Truman brought down the hill from the Senate-had erased the petty stains of mink coats, freezers and influence peddling. This week Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, a tough, rock-like symbol and chief enforcement officer of the code, stood before it for judgment...
Trying to escape her mink-lined fate as an offstage noise, Gloria has just recorded a new Columbia album, appeared last week on Art Linkletter's House Party, when she sang (through electronic ingenuity) all four parts of a quartet accompanying herself. "I like making money," she admits. "But I'd like to be known for all the things I've done. Nobody knows Gloria Wood...
...Entertainer, in which he played a boozy, aging song-and-dance man, Actor Laurence Olivier piped some 150 show-world guests (among them: Lena Home, Peter Ustinov, Ralph Bellamy) aboard a chartered excursion liner for a midnight cruise up the Hudson River. Garbed somewhat loosely in naval attire (explained mink-clad Actress Jessica Tandy: "I'm dressed as a Russian lady sailor"), Olivier's un-nautical crew dipped into champagne and stout, danced Scottish reels to the skirl of a bagpipe, taxied home from the cruise at 3:30 in the morning...
Britain's wealthy, mink-loving Lady Docker, her temper bubbling to a boil, sat in Monaco's overstuffed Hotel de Paris and mulled over the insult: all she wanted was to take her son Lance, 19, to a reception given by Prince Rainier and his Grace to celebrate the baptism of their princeling, Albert-and some palace flunkies had had the nerve to turn Lance away. Crossing her own little Rubicon, Norah Docker seized a paper Monacan flag used as a table decoration and hurled it to the floor. Word of the indignity soon burned the ears...
...Wolves & Mink. The big drawing cards at the outset: for Russia-models of the Sputniks. For the U.S.-a continuous parade of European fashion models, decked out in American-made bathing suits, $15 chemises or $7,500 mink coats. Almost unnoticed in the wolf-whistling stampede toward the fashion models: the U.S. atomic energy exhibit. Other American attention-getters: the "Circarama," a 15-minute movie of America the Beautiful projected on a 360° screen; the IBM 305 Ramac, which produces answers in ten languages in ten seconds; a set of U.S. voting machines. The pavilion's transplanted "corner...