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...turned out to be something of a kook's tour. First there was that midnight wedding in Las Vegas with the bride in a short shrift of a shift and the groom in the sockless sports outfit he happened to have on when they jetted out of Paris. Then Brigitte Bardot, 31, and her new, third husband, Gunter Sachs, 33, roared off to Hollywood for a Mad Hatter nuptial dinner, with Danny Kaye personally whipping up his special seven-course Chinese feed for the couple. Next morning, on they zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl...
Charles Julius Guiteau, 39, was known to President James A. Garfield only as a bragging pest who incessantly ailed at the White House to ask for "the Paris consulship." Guiteau, a lawyer and evangelist, described himself as an employee of "Jesus Christ & Co.," but wandering around Washington, sockless and absurd, he announced that his real mission was the salvation of unity in the Republican Party. At last he decided that God's will had ordained Garfield's death. He bought a .44-cal. revolver, tested it by firing at saplings along the Potomac, and went by the Washington...
...Sockless Guests. Mailer reached his Barbary Shore last week after a monumental weekend that began with a party in his West Side Manhattan apartment. The 200 guests were right out of a Mailer manuscript: poets, prizefighters, homosexuals, writers, Big Beat Allen Ginsburg, Actor Franciosa, Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz, Critic Delmore Schwartz. Syndicated Name Dropper Leonard Lyons left in a dudgeon when the sockless hipsters began to outnumber the quality folk ("I couldn't see the furniture for the beats"). The host and hostess welcomed their swarming guests in separate rooms, and as the party roared past the midnight hour...
England's well-groomed Board of Trade President Hugh Dalton, who had sworn not to buy a new suit for the duration, urged his fellow Britons to go collarless, tieless, sockless through the summer, said he himself would not hesitate to attend the House of Commons with a naked neck. "Men are a great problem" he decided. "They are too conservative...
...heir to the sensational tradition of Carry Nation, "Sockless Jerry" Simpson and John Brown of Osawatomie, this "Coolidge of the West" discoursed for 40 minutes on safety & sanity. The scholarly editorial board of the New York Times heard the address by radio, soberly pronounced: "He impresses you as a man of sound judgment and moderate opinions. . . . Inevitably he utters commonplaces, but some are not 'glittering generalities...