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Champagne Evenings. The competition for the title of most venturesome art collector in Chicago is indeed formidable.*In the 1950s, it would undoubtedly have been awarded to an enthusiast of abstract expressionism, Muriel Neuman, who picked up her first major De Kooning for $2,000 in 1950, long before most New York collectors were taking the movement seriously. More recently, the nod would have gone to Arnold Maremont, 63, president of Maremont Corp., maker of mufflers and other auto parts. The muffler man's 300-piece collection, valued at $2,000,000, shines throughout his manor house in Winnetka...
...PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE is more a one-character study than a fully fleshed play. Australian Actress Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon as an Edinburgh teacher with sweeping fervors and fantasies, but Mrs. Jay Allen's adaptation of a novel by Muriel Spark is unfortunately becalmed...
...past six years, Jacqueline Kennedy, 38, has occasionally been wearing a magnificent leopard coat made from $30,000 worth of rare skins given her by the Somali government when she was First Lady. Last month the generous Somalis presented a similar token of their esteem to Muriel Humphrey, 55, during her African jaunt with the Vice President. Alas! The intervening years have seen the passage of a law prohibiting Government officials from accepting any gift of more than "minimal value," and Muriel had to turn the furs over to the State Department. There is a possibility, said State, that Humphrey...
...clumsy Broadway adaptation by Mrs. Jay Allen of a Muriel Spark novel, the drama focuses on the havoc created by an invincibly dedicated teacher who stimulates the imaginations of adolescent girls with her own feverish fantasies of love and life. "I put old heads on young shoulders," Miss
...reminiscences and an antebellum novel about a Southern girl who falls in love with a slave with the unlikely name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared with Mystery Writer John Creasey's publishing schedule for the year: 15 books under four...