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...Rousseau windows, which he had already tried out in Hollywood, Saks's perky window designer James David Buckley chose six typical lush, salad-like Rousseau paintings, reproduced them in life-sized scenes with the help of rag-doll manikins, props of paper, cloth and wood. Window Dresser Buckley made each window represent a phase in the life of a woman. Rousseau's Portrait of a Young Girl, bloatedly enlarged, became "Her Awkward Age"; his Sleeping Gypsy, complete with mandolin and prowling lion, "Her Bohemian Period." Unlike previous art-conscious window displays, Buckley's contained no merchandise. Sole...
...have shrimp cocktail first, Mary; be very careful how you carry the tray there. . . . About the dessert-this Tarrytown Special-a fruit salad of bananas, berries and pears with caramel sauce on it. That's about all, but don't hurry though. That's the dollar dinner I want served next week when I get off the train from Washington." Dr. Smith tries to identify speakers' places of origin by their pronunciation. and, what is more, does so about 70% of the time...
...Francisco rotund Alexander Woollcott, playing in The Man Who Came to Dinner, dined with friends, on snails with French dressing, rice balls, bisque of clam, baby squid with sauce a la Genoise, saddle of lamb, fondue of truffles, cress salad. Result: he got a heart attack, was put to bed and the show had to close...
...piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary's highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a concert program was well sprinkled with Bartók. Diffident, wispy, grey, Béla Bartók himself was visiting the U. S., for the second time in his 59 years, looking unlike the way his severe works sound...
...cotton ginners. Then off on the straight roads through the miles of green fields, the corn up, redbuds already past their prime, white dogwood lacing the roadside woods, the Texas bluebonnets peeping in blue and cream patches, temperature 94°. At Hillsboro, more politicians, cold ham and potato salad, coffee in paper cups; at Marlin, home of old Texas Tom Connally, a speech in praise of Tom; at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, biggest combined military, agricultural, petroleum engineering and veterinary school in the U. S. (it furnished more Army officers in World War I than West Point), maneuvers...