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Other designers' offerings ran true to form: Grės' intricate chiffons, Castillo's long slim crepes, Capucci's stiff white collars. Pierre Cardin still reigned as Lord High Poohbah of Limp, displayed a group of floppy fashions and judged the season's loveliest. But with the Big Three-St. Laurent, Balenciaga and Givenchy-still three weeks away from showtime, the season was less past than prelude. The shape of things to come may still be drastically altered-but so, of course, can dresses already ordered...
Died. Mal S. Daugherty, 86, smalltown banker and political poohbah, one of the last surviving figures in the Teapot Dome scandal; after a stroke; in Washington Court House, Ohio. Brother of Harding's Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Mai refused to open his books to the Senate in 1924 (he was suspected of having part of the payoff funds on deposit), became a pariah in his own town after his conviction for misusing bank funds...
...Nina Petrovna (Solar Films), a French picture, has all the panoply and poohbah of a Hollywood super-colossal. Nina is a Tsarist floozy who traipses to Vienna breaks several hearts, lies like a lady for the man she loves, fades out with a bullet in her heart. What distinguishes Nina Petrovna is that Nina is Junoesque Isa Miranda, whose gaunt loveliness combines the allure of Marlene Dietrich with the expressiveness of Greta Garbo. With Garbo vacationing on the Mediterranean (TIME, March...
...history Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill insists that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal and commit no one but myself." Far from expecting tact in the pronouncements of his public men, the Englishman relishes spirited aspersions hurled from high office. Especially does he expect "Winnie" Churchill, proverbial playboy - poohbah of British politics - to say his bitter say against Americans and Bolsheviks, and to sing his little song for whatever policy is momentarily...
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