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Broken legs are no laughing matter for ladies in their 70s, and Dame Margaret Rutherford, 75, hasn't chortled once. The grand old actress fractured a thigh when she tripped on a rug in her hotel room in Rome, and had to be flown to London for an emergency operation. Dame Margaret is mad as a wasp about the whole thing, said Husband Stringer Davis. "She had been swimming every day near Rome, and is furious that the fall has put an end to that for the time being...
Delegates swept that squabble under the rug by calling for a report on rules changes next March. Meanwhile, they proceeded with their annual meeting's more pleasant activities: serious private talk well moistened at lunches, cocktail bashes and elegant dinners. To provide a suitably opulent setting, Brazil hastily completed the late architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy's beachfront Museum of Modern Art, despite some peculiarly Latin difficulties. University students wrecked the bulldozers that were about to demolish their subsidized, low-price restaurant, which blocked access to the imposing museum. Brazil's central bank bought off the students with...
...George sports a peasant-woven, hand-washable cotton from India. Paul's jacket is made of $98-a-yard pure-gold-threaded fabric originally woven for the ceremonial robes of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had to flee his throne before he could take delivery. The background rug, Persian but of Indian design, was borrowed from Liberty's of Regent Street, where it was priced...
...scholarly best to establish the limerick in early English tradition, with versions that reach back to the first modern lyric-"Sumer is icumen in"-but the classic limerick goes back no further than the work of Non sense Master Edward Lear, who, with British understatement, always wrote a clean, rug-pulling last line. Lear might have improved the popular appeal of his work if he had been able to follow the advice of Don Marquis on the proper quality of the limerick...
...some of her early engagements were at the unemployment-insurance office, and she had to live in a cold-water flat "where the roaches rattled the dishes." Within three months, though, she was accosted in Greenwich Village by a Hungarian producer named William Gyimes, who looked "like an Oriental-rug salesman." "Hey," he said, "are you an actress?" "He's crazy," she thought. But she said yes and was launched...