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DIED. Frank Tremaine, 92, Honolulu-based journalist for the United Press who filed the first account of the Pearl Harbor attack; in Savannah, Ga. On Dec. 7, 1941, the young reporter was awakened in his bungalow by the falling bombs. After confirming with sources over the phone, he filed this sentence, which the White House scooped by minutes in its official statement: "Flash--Pearl Harbor under aerial attack. Tremaine...
...football and boxing. After taking several courses on a trial basis, he was admitted to Yale Law School, from which he graduated in the top quarter of his class in 1941. He returned to Grand Rapids to found a law practice with his friend Philip Buchen, but shortly after Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Navy and served for four years...
...nightclub bathroom antics, and incessant hunk-hunting in Big Apple hotspots," as the New York Post put it, surely young Tara Conner, a small-town Kentucky girl grooving overly on the Big Apple, would be stripped (ooh) of what the New York Daily News called "her $17,500 Mikimoto pearl-dotted tiara...
...Classic Fantasy. Pride of place still goes to such rare items as the Dutch-made Princess Daisy doll (1890), and the two exquisitely detailed tabletop layouts of Chinese rock gardens once owned by the Empress Josephine (1780), which, apart from being handcarved in wood, ivory and mother-of-pearl, look like giant Polly Pocket sets...
...Tracy Chevalier’s breakaway novel “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” the blue and yellow head cloth that servant girl Griet insists on wearing when she poses for her master, Johannes Vermeer, becomes the unforgettable element of allure in her portrait...