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There are other hazards to the glit glut. Manhattan jet-set Travel Agent Susan Stein recalls with a shudder the time recently when her sequined dress got tangled in the sequins belonging to Marie Edith Legendre, the French consul general's wife. "I took a small loss at my hem," says Susan, "because I thought her whole dress might unravel." More serious still, there are signs that all the glitter is leading to snow blindness. Snaps the Boston Globe's Marjorie Sherman: "Frankly, I don't think I'm going to put any glitter...
...brain tumor; in Manhattan. He once defined what made his tabloid sell: "The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs...
Still, a Pavilion chef would shudder at the Johnsonesque proportions Franey uses. His beef-burgundy recipe calls for 2½ tons of cubed beef, 60 gal. of burgundy wine, 600 lbs. of mushrooms, 700 lbs. of onions and 465 gal. of sauce. It serves...
...observers doubt that some day, probably no later than 1972, the junior Senator from New York will try to cash in those coins for the presidency of the U.S. Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., with an almost perceptible shudder, talks of "the inevitability of Bobby." Playwright-Novelist Gore Vidal, a longtime foe, protests that "we now have a three-party system in America-the Democrats, the Republicans and the Kennedys." Cries Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, who had an acrimonious confrontation with Bobby during last month's hearings on the plight of U.S. cities: "Bobby Kennedy...
...noisy and her fiber-glass hull sweats so that she's definitely clammy," says America's Cup Veteran Bus Mosbacher, whose Cal-40 finished a respectable eighth in the Newport-Bermuda race. Others complain that she lacks speed on a reach (sailing across the wind) and shudder at her dumpy, short-bowed, ugly-duckling looks. "Why don't you make your boats prettier?" asked a friend recently. Grinned Designer Lapworth, "They get prettier every time they...