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...Vanderbilts were here this morning and so were the Sonny Whitneys and the Ogden Phippses and they were all agog at the cute little brown horse done in saddle cloth colors of gold and turquoise with rose tassels in his mane. And speaking of eating out, everyone was doing just that under the early morning purple sky on the green grass as Harry M. Stevens caterers provided a spread of truffles and figs and express made on an open air wood fire...
...delight, and he was undoubted master of the unique form that he devised: the line that runs on and on, metric foot after metric foot, only to snap to an end with an outrageously contrived rhyme that usually manages to contain a real groaner of a pun. When Ogden Nash died of heart failure last week at 68 in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, he left an affectionate and inventive verbal legacy. Said his friend and editor Ned Bradford of Little, Brown: "He reflected all the joys and vexations of American life in those resigned but cheerful verses...
...Died. Ogden Nash, 68, American master of light verse and champion of the outrageous rhyme (see THE NATION...
Died. Helen Rogers Reid, 87, president, then chairman of the board (1947-55) of the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune; in Manhattan. Wife of the Trib's Editor-President Ogden Reid, she made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate...
...Ogden Nash...