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...became something of a legend-and today he is the last of that era's heroes still seeking to command. In England, LeMay concluded that too many of his B-17s were missing targets because they zigzagged away from antiaircraft fire. He led the next raid over Saint-Nazaire, directing his planes in a straight-line block formation through the flak. Next day he ordered his planes to take no more evasive actions on their final bombing runs. Losses went up, but so did the proficiency of his bombers. LeMay took similar risks in the Pacific. Assigned...
...world of perfumery, the star of the after-hours bash at Bonwit Teller's department store in Manhattan was Lauren Bacall, who held court with her left leg propped on a dainty gilt chair. She had torn a cartilage at another party honoring still another designing guru, Yves Saint Laurent. "I thought I was Margot Fonteyn on the dance floor and promptly slipped," said Lauren. "And now as I go spreading joy through New York, I'm paying for it every step...
...first Mailer was dismayed at McCarthy's failure to attack Humphrey in debate before the California delegation. Then he came to realize that the Senator was "proceeding on the logic of the saint, as if the first desire of the ONE devil might be to make you the instrument of your own will. God would judge the importance of the event, not man, and God would give the tongue to speak, if tongue was the organ to be manifested. Everything in McCarthy's manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint...
Cascade of Grease. In many ways, the patron saint of the exhibit is Soft Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who last year got the City of New York to hire two gravediggers to dig a hole for him in Manhattan's Central Park, then fill it in, thereby burying a nonexistent "underground sculpture." His offering this time round: a Plexiglas cube stocked with night crawlers and humus, titled Worm Earth Piece. Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss...
Will that bastard-saint, the real Al Vellucci, please stand up, wave the life wand and let the dumb speak...