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Except for about 30 pieces (including an Epstein bust and a sprinkling of Pre-Raphaelites), the Tate has resolutely packed them off to the cellar. That, says the gallery's pastel-shirted Director John Rothenstein, is where they belong...
...their first big auto show since war's end. They could look, but few could buy. Since Britain must export 75% of its cars, most of the new models were aimed at U.S. trade. They had the wide grillwork which Britons call "the Dollar Grin." Daimler's pastel green, 150-h.p. convertible, with hand-built body, was the show's most expensive car. In England, with a $10,000 tax, it costs $28,000. U.S. price: about...
...seem as remote as the banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish past the dull tan of Soviet uniforms; a U.S. admiral's navy blue is lightly brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads on two great buffet tables: platters of sliced veal and chicken, salads in splendid variety, tidy piles...
...late next fall, when the hammers are stilled and the plaster dust settled, Manhattan's sedate Times will be settled in one of the fanciest quarters in the business. An air-conditioned building with pastel walls, glass-brick partitions and functional furniture, it has cozy bedroom suites for executives, playrooms and dining rooms for all 3,300 staffers and a city room so vast that the city editor has to use a microphone to page his far-flung reporters...
Intangibles In London, Baron Stanley of Alderley sued for divorce after four years of marriage. The baron's lady: the Transatlantic Set's pastel blonde Sylvia, who was Lady Ashley before she succeeded Mary Pickford as the late, gymnastic Douglas Fairbanks' wife...