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...then moved with his family to Lima in 1948, where he graduated from the Colegio National de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe and then studied painting and sculpture, not in Milan, but at the National Fine Arts School of Peru. One of his fellow students there, Jose Bracamonte, remembers his pal Carlos as a resourceful blade who lived mainly off gambling (cards, horses, dice), and harbored "like an obsession" the wish to move to the U.S. "We all liked Carlos," recalls Bracamonte. "He was witty, imaginative, cheerful?a big liar and a real friend...
...weekends at Sinatra's place in Palm Springs. The Vice President honored Sinatra in January 1971 by flying to Palm Springs for the dedication of the Martin Anthony Sinatra Medical Education Center, Sinatra's monument to his father. Later, while on a good-will tour, Agnew discovered pal Sinatra waiting for him in Portugal. Last summer Sinatra was back at a national convention-the Republicans' this time-in the Agnew...
...that tradition comes The Jockey Club Stakes, and it is a nostal gic delight to have the show in Manhattan. Playwright Home's three central characters are titled racing stewards. Imagine their clubroom pal lor when they discover that a stakes race has been rigged by the wife of the senior board member (Wilfrid Hyde-White). When a priggish socialist peer threatens to expose the affair, this Britannic trio waives the rules and brings the bounder to heel...
...like le whisky and le weekend, the government banned 350 offenders from official usage and urged the French to drop them from everyday currency as well. In place of the Anglicisms, the government proposed French substitutes. Flashback, for example, can be replaced by retrospectif; hit parade will succumb to pal-mares (literally, prize list); one-man show will be rendered spectacle solo; tanker will become navire citerne...
...They're telling around that most of the local mugs will be billeting at the Commander in a surprise merger with the Supply Waves!!!...Now, pleeaassee don't quote me, pal, but I heard a fellow behind me in our first class this morning, and he was bumpin' his gums, giving all the gang the row-down...Oh, yeah, all the classes are gonna be held in Memorial Hall, too...At least, that's my latest info on it." Scarcely "Crimson standards...