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Down to Work. Stuarti wraps up all this dolcezza in what he calls his "there are no strangers, only friends I haven't met" approach. A slender, handsome, loosely jointed man with a wild mop of brown hair, he woos his audiences with a wide assortment of audio-visual aids: a nifty little tango step, a flinging of the arms, a flexing of the knees, and a sort of deep lumbar lean that threatens to topple him over backward. He may drift around the room, mike in hand, gazing smokily into the eyes of ringside ladies, who invariably gaze...
House of Dior Couturier Marc Bohan puts the reverse culotte on everything from beach clothes to ball gowns, and makes slender tubes of evening dresses seem vaguely practical enough to go hiking in. German Model Brigitta Schmucker (see above) wears a silver-embroidered pale pink nylon net version...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Wheelock Moulton, 89, longtime (1920-46) Episcopal Bishop of Utah, a slender, outgoing cleric who became a zealous, if sometimes confused, campaigner for world peace after his retirement in 1946, frequently lending his name to Communist-front groups, but turning down a $25,000 Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 with a cool rebuke: "The only reward I want in working for peace is peace"; in Salt Lake City...
Your article about the first successful Nike-Zeus interception of a special target vehicle borne aloft by an Atlas ICBM [TIME, July 27] stated that "the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird on the target...
...Utica, N.Y., where Davies was born 100 years ago, a retrospective collection of his art is now on show. The 98 works at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute include oils, watercolors, two tapestries, and some small bronzes. Some of the oils, like Crescendo (see color), are filled with the slender nudes which Davies used not so much to people his landscapes as to punctuate his rhythmic compositions. And the tranquil quiet of Our River Hudson seems removed by much more than half a century from the birth of the brash modern movement that Davies supported so willingly...