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...Singer Pat Boone's show, where Guest Bea Lillie was introduced as "the imitable." Bea showed plenty of mileage for an older model: she poked her thimble nose through big fluttering fans, slipped off the piano a time or two, tripped over her long chiffon scarf. With limp, well-scrubbed adoration, Pat said: "You sure deserve the reputation you have," to which worldly-wise Bea replied: "Thanks-I think." Before she got hopelessly boxed in a square dance, Comedienne Lillie, 59, and Singer Boone, 23, did a spritely spoof of country music called I Got Tears in My Ears...
...closed his eyes contentedly as he felt the clippers on his thick neck. He was completely oblivious of two dark, sallow men who entered with their hats on, after him. Each of the pair wore the sort of dark, metal-rimmed glasses affected by highway cops. Each wore a scarf over his mouth. Each wore a black glove on his right hand, and each black hand gripped a pistol. They pushed the barber aside and stood on either side of the chair...
...Dallas, French Fashion Designer Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 74, received the Neiman-Marcus Golden Anniversary Award as "the great innovator who emancipated the feminine silhouette," transforming it from undulating, feminine curves to flapper angularities with emphasis on comfort, jersey, pearls, the triangular scarf, the pleated skirt, shawls, colored gloves for night parties, and cloche hats for that come-hither look -and Chanel No. 5 for that come-hither smell. In a baffling statement of first principles, the woman who banished the waistline, eliminated hips and deflated the bosom, announced: "The most important thing is to look feminine." Confusing the issue still...
...those cars with a low chassis. The wind caught his long scarf, wrapped it round the wheel, and in one savage second strangled him. The car skidded, buckled, reared against a tree, and was nothing but a heap of wreckage with one wheel spinning like a roulette wheel...slower, slower, slower in the silence...
...rivals Britain's first Elizabeth for energy and cunning; the "Illustrious Sovereign" Hsuan-Tsung, scholar and educator, whose tragic love for the beauteous Yang Kuei Fei ended when the army, incensed at her extravagance, forced her to be hanged from a pear tree with a silken scarf...