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...opinions are as trim and sharp as she is. Her two-word review of Irving Shulman's biography of Jean Harlow was: "Shocking puce." Her general code is: "You should be vicious only if you have something to be vicious about." And-regardless of whether it is called gossip or opinion-she sees no reason not to be vicious about actors if she wants to be. "I don't think actors have any right to private lives," she says. "If they want to have privacy, they shouldn't be actors. I don't like cowards...
...Puce stamps have no glue, no books to stick them in, and a four-color catalogue of gifts you can't have. They give impact to a new trend-nothing for nothing...
America's trading-stamp dilemma with Puce Genuine Non-Trading Stamps...
...Puce Stamps are guaranteed absolutely worthless. The American housewife is thereby relieved of the chores of coupon licking and Stamp collecting. She is free to devote her time to other housewifery tasks...
When the bidding reached ?100,000 ($280,000), the bulky old gentleman in the puce-and-green-striped tie emitted a genteel "whew," and he blinked his eyes incredulously at every ?10,000 jump thereafter. The work on sale last week at Sotheby's in London was his: Rembrandt's brooding St. Bartholomew, one of the most important Rembrandts still left in private hands. The final price of $532,000 fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still...