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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's nightclub world was under the spell of two visiting princesses last week, and their subjects hardly knew where to pay homage first. At the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room, demure Dorothy Dandridge rambled through her slinky-but-sweet songs about love and how to enjoy it. A few blocks away, in the downstairs den known as the Copacabana, petite Eartha Kitt took her listeners on a quadrilingual (English, French, Spanish, Turkish) tour over much the same ground, sticking mostly to its back alleys...
Hoffman broke the spell in the fifth with the varsity's first hit. Simourian followed with a walk, but Don Butters, remaining in a springlong slump, flied out to end the threat...
...Iupine and Rocks" by Charles Wardsworth, awarded the first prize, is a study of flowers and foliage. Elongated "corn cob" flowers reach up like snakes under the spell of a charmer's flute. The subject and Wardsworth's careful painting suggest comparison with the primitive, Theodore Rousseau, although the atmosphere is not quite so mysterious or internal. In another oil painting honored by the judges, "Meyer Gate," Donald Outerbridge uses the staccato brush technique of the pointillists to create a Seurat-like composition...
...county fair and gets a blue ribbon, and goes to college, too, and dates her boy friend on the next farm. They go to dances together, and they eat hot dogs and drink Cokes at football games and, on some moonlight night in autumn, while parked for a spell in the lane, he pops the eternal question...
...mingle with other than bluebloods). where he spends the next two hours in princely recreation, mostly horseback riding, but also golf and tennis. Late in the afternoon he returns to Montellano Palace for further study in history and languages, stops in time to change and have a breathing spell before dinner. After dinner there is reading, homework and sleep...