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...such an atmosphere of yearning, the Big Four foreign ministers met one evening at the Pacific Union Club, a squat, brownstone mansion atop Nob Hill, to savor California cracked crabs, guinea hen on ham, and strawberries Mary Pickford (coated with pineapple sherbet). "A month ago we were in Vienna," toasted the host, John Foster Dulles. "Tonight we dine in San Francisco. Within the month we will be at Geneva. We can all hope that the sources of friction between us have been reduced by our efforts." The city lay beneath them, glistening myriad lights at night, to the edge...
...thinks it worth playing. The ladies may knit with muted needles, but there is not another sound until the record is ended. While the music is on, Kinsey eyes his guests to see whether they catch the nuances of a fine performance. Between numbers, and at a sherbet and cake intermission, there is no idle chatter-only the point-counterpoint of lofty criticism. When the last piece has been played, the guests rise as one, thank the Kinseys for a lovely evening, and leave in a body...
...Albania he visited the Turkish vizier, Ali Pasha, who "treated me like a child, sending me almonds and sugared sherbet, fruit and sweetmeats twenty times a day." Off the isle of Corfu he found he could take the lash of fortune as well as her caress. When the ship seemed certain to go down in a storm, and even the captain "burst into tears and ran below deck," young Byron, with as much bravery as bravado, "wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak) and lay down on deck to wait the worst." On shore, his valor...
...last three dozen guests out by turning off the electric lights. Then they totted up the toll: 18 gallons of lobster Newburg, 450 hamburgers, eight turkeys, eight hams, a bushel of green salad, eight gallons of lavender-pink potato salad, six crocks of baked beans, eight gallons of sherbet, dozens of cases of bourbon, Scotch and gin, 120 bottles of champagne. Said Martha: "Everything came out even, except Clem Ryan." The evening had cost Millionaire Ryan something like...
...Paris school of painting boasts five aged masters who probably have less in common than the members of any other "school" in art history. They are protean Pablo Picasso, bubbly Henri Matisse, smoldering Georges Rouault, sherbet-cool Georges Braque-and the least famous of the lot, Fernand Léger. The U.S. is getting to know Léger better this year, through a retrospective exhibition of his work arranged by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, after a six-week stay in Chicago, the 125-item show opened at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Manhattan...