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...group of promoters who specialize in organizing balls for a fee (some $14 million of the $45 million raised by charity balls last year went for "operating expenses"). Each has his own gimmick, and is cattily critical of his competitors. For the New York Times's Nan Robertson, one promoter ticked off one colleague's: "He plays the Russian bit. He always has somebody doing the squat dance or auctioning off a painting by a 90-year-old grand duchess." Struck by sudden inspiration, one promoter saved a recent ball (for Society Girl Gregg Dodge...
...gale-whipped brush fire-the worst in Southern California's history -had sent up in Argenta-mink smoke 447 homes (bottom price: $50,000), left behind more than $24 million in insurance claims, and the flossiest refugees since the Russian Revolution. Among the homeless were Actor Cliff Robertson, Joan Fontaine, Comedian Arnold Stang, Bandleader Orrin Tucker. All that was left of Burt Lancaster's $500,000 estate was a mailbox, an exercise bicycle and a smoldering set of barbells. Poking through his own $100,000 ruins, Joe E. Brown uncovered only some oddments and the dress sword...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Cliff Robertson, Paul McGrath and Salome Jens in a play by Robert Alan Aurthur about a onetime child prodigy who has become a recluse...
...senate, a member leaped to his feet to accuse the presiding officer, Lieut. Governor Albert Boutwell, of prejudiced parliamentary rulings. To everyone's surprise Boutwell burst into tears, prayed between sobs that "My heart may never become so hard that I cannot shed a tear." Joe Robertson, Governor John Patterson's executive secretary, got into an argument with a house member, angrily called him an s.o.b. The ensuing fistfight was broken up by Public Safety Director Floyd Mann. While state troopers moved into the chambers to prevent other fights, the filibuster droned on. Filibusterers even refused...
Britain's view of its own abstract art is highly selfconscious, aware that Paris decades ago showed the way to abstractionism and that the U.S. went farthest with it. Or as Bryan Robertson, director of London's Whitechapel Gallery, puts it: "British painting is just part of the international style, and the only English thing about it is its limitation.'' His view of Lanyon. Vaughan. Frost and Kitchens: "Jolly dreary." But that is just one opinion, and Britain's art row bristles with contrary judgments...