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Good Sport. To suit them, Nona and Sophie still go to Paris twice a year. On their last trip a few weeks ago, they bought "a little of each," says Sophie. "Some customers adore Lanvin. Others like Nina Ricci and Cardin, Givenchy and Balenciaga." After ordering the originals, the ladies buy fabrics, buttons and other necessary materials. Back at the workshop, their custom seamstresses make up duplicates, and Chez Ninon announces a showing. A private one is held for important customers, such as Jackie and Mrs. Dillon; Jackie herself gets the first look at new clothes, if she requests...
Born. To Leonard Bernstein, 43, kinetic conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and blonde, Costa Rica-born Actress Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, 40: their third child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Maria Nina Felicia...
...hailing F.D.R. as the champion of Soviet-American understanding and cooperation. Khrushchev dispatched a warm message to Roosevelt's widow, praising F.D.R. for "his efforts on behalf of Soviet-American friendship." A Russian delegation appeared at Hyde Park to lay a wreath on F.D.R.'s grave, and Nina Khrushchev joined U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and 250 Russians at a Moscow memorial ceremony dominated by a portrait of the late President...
...home with three or four pot holders and a long, thin necktie. For evening wear, Grès grew more conservative: one closely draped jersey dress covered the midriff completely, except for two good-sized diamond-shaped picture windows just south of the rib cage. Jules Crahay of Nina Ricci finally closed the neckline of one dress at the navel. Michel Goma and other designers offered evening-gown backs bare down to the coccyx. Patou loaded down daytime costumes with shoulder bows, capelets, streaming stoles and back skirt panels. Dior's Marc Bohan, however, departed only slightly from...
...Director Houseman, whose diffident and quiet manner never quite accompanies him into rehearsals. He is an acerbic, hard-riding actor-jockey, whose casts love him, loathe him, and respect him. "He slices them off at the ankles," says one of his assistants, "especially the girls." In a rehearsal Nina Foch once made a suggestion about the lighting, and he let her have it: "You're not an electrician," he told her. "You're an actress-I think." Then he had a real electrician play a bilious green light on Foch for an hour...