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...dues of $65 a year to forgather in an atmosphere that more or less suggests the living room of an impoverished baron in the family castle-glowering big game, crossed swords, a fireplace, and a half-acre tapestry. From a glassed-in aerie above the two-story room, a platter spinner manipulates the mood of the members with variety and volume, and things can get pretty wild as the evening wears on. But Le Club, which blasted off to an initial success that drained El Morocco to its zebra skins, is no longer the jet center it used...
...they entered the national pancake eating championship at the Inter-national House of Pancakes in Brighton yesterday. But when members of the Crimson duos had downed their first stack of three pancakes, and saw Henry--a 6 ft., 5 in., 240 pound B.U. football player--calling for his second platter of 18 it became obvious that Harvard and Radcliffe very going to got clobbered...
After his appointment last March as U.S. Ambassador to Finland, Rowan fascinated the Finns with his outspoken talk about U.S. racial problems. And on racial matters, Rowan is understandably militant. "No people I can recall in history ever got their freedom on a silver platter," he says. "The Negro is no exception. There's a latent decency in the American conscience. But it takes this militancy to arouse...
...plow straight through the book as I did; you'll never make it. Instead, dip in occasionally and taste it. The World of Vogue is an endless assortment of hors d'oeuvres from a platter arranged with discerning taste...
...platter before us was too broad," John Schlesinger decided when he took over. "I decided to consolidate." His first move was to sell off his father's pet chain of bioscopes to 20th Century-Fox for $28 million. Next went the hotels. Schlesinger shocked traditionalists last year when he announced that the 57-year-old Carlton Hotel in downtown Johannesburg would be razed. To replace it: a 23-story, glass-and-steel office building to house Schlesinger's headquarters...