Word: rodins
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...Danielle Darrieux), and the good life (No. 3 and No. 4: Heiresses Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton). No. s-to-be can give him none of these things, but moonstruck Rubirosa, aching to marry her "probably within one month," husked that his fiancee, fast-rising Paris Actress Odile (Fabien) Rodin, 19,* is "pretty, intelligent, gracious and good...
...famed French Sculptor Auguste Rodin, Odile changed her surname from Berard...
...Republican National Convention was on the presses. "Peace, Progress, Prosperity" read the slogan on the cover; "Unity" read the label near the top. The illustration: a photograph that at first glance looked like unity, all right. It was a famed sculpture by France's Auguste (The Thinker) Rodin (1840-1917), showing three muscular men, their lowered heads together, their arms and bodies touching one another with fluid force. They were also nude...
...nudity that first attracted attention. Last week Republican women in San Francisco, where the programs were being printed, complained about what they called obscenity. What was worse, as the ladies-and then G.O.P. officials-discovered to their horror, was that Rodin had titled his work The Three Shades, and had done it for a project called The Gate of Hell. Rodin had also conceived a legend for the statue, taken from Dante: "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here...
...into the Flies. During the pianist's first selection an odd audience (of New York City Ballet dancers) entered, carrying folding chairs. There were: a deep-down music lover who listens a la Rodin, a pair of candy-sucking bobby-soxers, a long-legged young thing who practically climbed into the piano in her love of music (Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq), a bored couple and, finally, a young fellow who trampled all the other concertgoers while trying to find his seat. At that point the Chopin medallion zoomed up into the flies and madness descended...