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...yacht and country clubs and the looming shingled mansions by the sea, eastern high society dances the summer nights away to the honey-tongued music of a few favored bands. The men on the bandstands at Newport, Southampton and Bar Harbor are the.same ones who whip out the frothy fox trots at the coming-out balls in the fall, at the canopied weddings in June; two generations of debutantes have been presented, courted and married under the batons of such bandleaders as Meyer Davis and Emil Coleman. Perhaps the busiest of the musical blue bloods is a springy, raw-nerved...
...several hundred musicians. On a busy night he may have as many as 25 Lester Lanin groups blaring his bouncy arrangements from Maine to Maryland. He himself shows up mainly at top-drawer affairs, e.g., last week a Newport dinner dance in honor of Perle Mesta, before that at Southampton's Tennis Ball and Newport's Tiffany Ball. There are enough such affairs to keep Lanin on the bandstand most nights of the year...
...links), something new has been added. Perched on pretty heads all along the East Coast, the man's straw is this summer's last word. Sales of the soft straws, reported conservative Brooks Brothers, have been "amazing." Said a pert teen-ager at Long Island's Southampton: "This year you're behind the times unless you're wearing a soft straw...
...Southampton, Long Island's still plush jackets-for-dinner resort, cast a glance back to an earlier generation of summering painters by staging a retrospective of more than 100 turn-of-the-century paintings by the late William Merritt Chase. A friend of Whistler and a dandy in the grand style, Chase inspired his students with his enthusiasms for Velasquez, Frans Hals, Chardin and Japanese printmakers, awed his contemporaries with his exotic, cluttered studios, fez-topped black servants, white wolfhounds and mighty oaths ("My God! I'd rather go to Europe than to Heaven!"). His styles became...
Born. To Angier Biddle Duke, 41, tobacco heir (Lucky Strike) and president of the International Rescue Committee, onetime (1952-53) U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, and Maria Luisa de Arana, 34, granddaughter of Spain's Marquis de Campo Real: their first son, second child; in Southampton, N.Y. Name: Drexel Dario Biddle. Weight...