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Some People, Places, & Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel could easily turn out to be a misnomer. If the title is accurate, it would be good news, for Author Cheever is in danger of getting bogged down in his talent-lined rut. He promises in the future...
The restaurant's liquor list reads like a South Sea adventure. After an encounter with a White Witch (pure white Jamaica rum) or a Rangoon Ruby (vodka and cranberry juice), the drinker may well feel such a Suffering Bastard (rums, lime and liqueurs) that he will want to see...
Not since 1939, when a Harvard lad wearing skirts won the Wellesley College hoop-rolling contest, had the tweedy, well-heeled people of Wellesley, Mass. (pop. 26,071), been so riled up. Tempers boiled; upstanding citizens denounced one another in public meetings, over TV and in newspaper ads. The issue...
In the salons of haute couture in Paris last week, buyers and fashion editors from all over the world got their first look at the color and shape of the spring lines-and found themselves looking backward. The new look was the old look of the F. Scott Fitzgerald flapper...
But Bohan's hip-hugging skirts, exotic colors ("Laburnum yellow," "Provence apricot,"), and infinite attention to detail and neatness, generally embracing the flapper trend, stunned the salon and sent reporters into paroxysms of joy. "But Marc Bohan is wonderful," cried a converted Eugenia Sheppard. "Five minutes after the show...