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...extraordinarily happy. Johnson appeared to recognize at least one individual in each of the 50 states' flotillas. Now he clapped heartily, now he smiled a big Texas grin, now he shot an affectionate wink, now he made the O.K. sign with his thumb and forefinger, now his characteristic palm-down bye-bye wave...
...from rose-colored. Cost of fitting the lenses (after an average of six sittings) ranges from $150 to $300. Then there is the matter of removing them, a highly complicated process involving a series of postures (feet planted firmly on the floor before the mirror, back hunched, one palm cupped below the eye, the other fanned out beside it) that might seem the essence of grace in a Kabuki dancer but stir less enthusiasm when performed in a crowded ladies' room, look downright insane in a restaurant. Worse still are the moments when removal is imperative...
...giant's game. New York City alone has 50-odd high school players taller than 6 ft. 5 in.-but Power's Lew Alcindor, at 7 ft. 1 in. and 235 Ibs., is a giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker, and he can palm a basketball faster than a cop can palm an apple. In practice, he stands idly under the backboard sucking on a lollipop, dropping ball after ball into the 10-ft.-high basket-without ever leaving his feet. In a game, his specialties are the "dunk" shot (in which he leaps...
...breed. At elegant Henri Bendel, Geraldine Stutz became president at 33, has successfully given her store an aura of yé-yé. Last week able, low-keyed Mildred Custin, 58, took over as president of twelve Bonwit Teller stores that stretch from Fifth Avenue headquarters south to Palm Beach and west to Oakbrook...
Died. Dolly O'Brien, 70, belle of Palm Beach from the '20s to the '40s, whose ageless blonde beauty, irrepressible wit and $5,000,000 worth of yeast from her second husband, Julius Fleischmann, so charmed the swains that Clark Gable, among others, proposed to her when she was well past 50 but was turned down as husband No. 4 because she could not countenance moving to Hollywood; after a succession of strokes; in West Palm Beach...