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...Edward Peacock, who arrived in the U.S. in January to knock down Great Britain's investments in privately-owned American corporations (TIME, Jan. 20), took his biggest step first this week. His initial sale: huge American Viscose Corp., world's largest rayon manufacturer...
Confusion reigned as the first fulldress rehearsal of "Too Much Johnson" got under way last night in Sanders Theatre. Bustling belles in brocades and peacock feathers scurried around the stage, followed by strange creatures, among which was a redoubtable Frenchman dressed in a double-breasted frock coat and wearing a Napoleon III moustache...
...sophisticated began calling him El Buchudo, he of the double chin. Pudgy though he is, Avila Camacho keeps himself in good condition, mostly by riding and walking. A Mexican is nothing if he cannot make himself look like part of a horse. Avila Camacho's "highschool" horse Pavo (Peacock) went through his dance steps in the New York horse show last month, and the new President has made many gringo friends by way of his two-goal polo, which is sharpened to the verge of three-goal by clever, tricky play. His favorite polo pony is named Lady Hitchcock...
Cleverly chosen artificialities, collectively representing the tinsel world of both men and peacocks, form the main body of "Concertino for the Death of a Favorite Peacock," also by Abrahams. The poem propels a telling shaft at a world crowded with forests of obelisks, pilasters, and Byzantine roadhouses...
HARVARD '44 DARTMOUTH '44 Aldrich or Teal, l.e. r.e., Revenaugh Malloti, l.t. r.t., Peacock DoCoster, l.g. r.g., Marion Gleason, c. c,m McCloskey Lawrence, r.g. l.g. Templeton Parson, r.t. l.t., Clark Cummings, r.e. l.e., McDevitt Geethals, q.b. q.b., Hood Johnson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Frost O'Donnell, r.h.b. i.h.b., Slusser And'rs'n or Cowen, f.b. f.b., McLaughry...