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...brightest new star in the Paris firmament. A former disciple of Balenciaga, Courrèges (pronounced Koo-reige) set up his own shop in 1961, soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in severe white dresses cut three inches above the knee and white, mid-calf boots open at the toe. The highflying hem was born. The French Vogue and Elle devoted so much space to Courrèges that Coco Chanel took offense, threatened leading French fabric houses...
...only historians will be equal to the task of excavation. The memoirs have been assembled like a scrapbook, by a man who could not bear to leave anything out. They sorely lack the editor's pencil-and an editor's restraint...
...instrument panels bristled with an intricate array of switches, knobs and dials that controlled everything from the air conditioning of the astronauts' space suits to the most delicate computer computations necessary for the mission. Everything was there in carefully planned, expensive detail; there was even a little mechanical pencil dangling by a chain from a spring-loaded reel. Price of one pencil...
...praise for the regime, for which my pencil lay in wait, did not appear. There was only a soft mention of how the Chinese have become happier and more well-fed since the Revolution. I waited for the army to march proudly through Peking's "Red-Square," but they never came. The movie was thwarting my every move into complacency, and the photography and color began to penetrate...
...then by $30,000. It was a three-way race until Agnew's of London dropped out at $2,116,800, and from then on the bidding seesawed between Marlborough Fine Arts, Ltd., represented by David Somerset, who conspicuously signaled his bids with a large red pencil-and Norton Simon, the California industrialist and art collector (TIME, May 29, 1964). Finally the price leveled at $2,175,000. Four times Christie's auctioneer, I. O. Chance, repeated the bid; then he brought down his hammer, announced: "Sold to Marlborough Fine Arts." Applause scattered across the room for what...