Word: riviera
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Students from Harvard and Radcliffe are being sought by the Camp des Alpes-Maritimes, Inc to act as counselors at its Riviera camp for needy French children, Arthur H. King '50, a director of the organization, announced yesterday...
...rear fenders. As an added eye-catcher, Cadillac was showing a $32,000 yellow convertible with upholstery of leopard skin and grey nylon satin and leopard skin floor rugs. Oldsmobile had a hard-top convertible with seats trimmed in green alligator hide, while Buick displayed a salmon-colored "Riviera" with a shocking pink interior trimmed in simulated broadtail...
Where the Riviera is loud and brash, its less renowned rival Biarritz is reserved and circumspect. Drowsing in the winter sun, discreet Biarritz has its full share of ménages à trois, lurid and perverted personalities, titled lovers and mistresses of high & low degree. But scandal, however it flourishes behind the hedges that screen the big villas, is never to be flaunted in the swank drinking places. Thus it has been ever since the days of Britain's Edward VII, who set the tone for Biarritz and usually remembered to draw the blinds...
...crowd pressed close around the first tee at Los Angeles' Riviera Country Club. A bare-kneed emcee in kilts and tarn strode forward. "Ladies and gentlemen," he announced, "this is the greatest event in the history of the Los Angeles Open, but I have been requested by Mr. Ben Hogan to introduce him and say nothing else. On the tee-Ben Hogan...
...gallery at the Riviera, once known as Hogan's Alley, there was little more that needed to be said. Everybody remembered Ben's auto crash last February, how he lay for weeks after that in an El Paso hospital, his pelvis, collarbone, ankle and a rib broken. First it had been a question of whether Ben would live at all, then whether he would ever walk. But a couple of weeks ago, after a few practice rounds in Texas, 37-year-old Ben had made up his mind to come back. The gallery, schooled to remember that "they...