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...French Riviera, Auto Heir Horace E. Dodge Jr., 51, gave some expensive publicity to sometime Actress Gregg Sherwood, 26, whose announcement last year that they would get married was pooh-poohed by Dodge as just an attempt to get more free publicity. On the terrace of the Palm Beach Casino-where 40 guests enjoyed mounds of orchids ($15 each), 60 lbs. of ice-encased caviar and a $1,000 display of fireworks-Horace presented his platinum-blonde friend with a $4,290 gold bracelet (her collection of gewgaws from Dodge already includes a $3,000 gold cigarette lighter...
Push, Don't Pay. What gives the changeless Bemelmans world its hard-wearing longevity is that it belongs neither to pure fact nor pure fiction. Its borders extend to Palm Beach and Hollywood, but its heartland is Europe-not the Europe of Gide or Aneurin Bevan, but a continent whose inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses...
...main change in Mike himself is that he may now be classed as a businessman. Aside from occasional weekends with Gloria at the Zanucks' in Palm Springs, he leads a quiet life. His credit is beyond question. He works hard. "I'm tired," he remarked not long ago. "I've been on my imperial feet all day." And, in his imperial fashion, he has learned a great deal about running a restaurant. Recently, when he was told that a waiter captain had been rude on the telephone to an important habitue, Mike announced quietly, "If I ever...
...moral: if this review instills in you an unquenchable desire to run all the way to the Orpheum with eighty-five cents clutched in your hot, sweaty little palm, get there by eight-thirty. On second thought, try eight-fifteen. There may be a cartoon...
...race No. 4,000, to put him numerically head & shoulders over the rest of the U.S. jockeys; at California's Hollywood Park. In the race for the longest winning record, Longden, 42, was still (426) behind England's 47-year-old Gordon Richards. ¶ Sam Snead, the Palm Beach golf tournament, by two points over Gary Middlecoff; at New Rochelle...