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...stucco and chicken-wire cliffs of Hollywood success are alluring from afar, but the pilgrims who cling to the steeps find them treacherous, lonely and slippery as glass. A fearful few on the higher ledges kick savagely at those who struggle near; the weary majority simply hang on, motionless as skewered lepidoptera. Climbers tumble off daily into a shadowed limbo below, to live out grey lives without Cadillacs, swimming pools or cell space in the brain of Louella O. Parsons. But television's Jack Randolph Webb, 33. has never faltered or looked down; he has gone...
Newsmen sped out ten miles to suburban Helmieh to Naguib's modest, one-story, stucco villa in the center of a sandy, poverty-row street. They found the ex-President incommunicado behind a cordon of wellarmed, closemouthed troops. Even his phone...
...knuckled . . . and no punches pulled. We're not pushovers and we're not punching bags . . . You can't handle the problems of a railroad and be in Palm Beach and Newport." (Young has palatial homes in both places; White lives in a ten-room brick-and-stucco house in Scarsdale, N.Y., is a New York Central commuter.) White also denied that Young is the largest individual stockholder, saying that there is another who owns more shares and "who has been very friendly...
...Yale Center of Alcohol Studies sits unobtrusively without any identification--squat but spacious like a bottle of Ballantine's scotch. Undoubtedly built in the 19th century, its four stories have mahogany-toned woodwork and a faded coat of yellow paint, which partially conceals stone, stucco, or something...
...Clinic's most striking feature is its decoration. In this cold setting of stucco walls is a collection of oriental art more fitting for a museum than a scientific laboratory. The spoils of wanderlust have filled almost every room with exotic gifts. An undergraduate who stopped at the wreck of the old Parker House after its demolition in 1926, brought in he first decoration, a silver an gold cornice above the library's front window. One student donated two Alaskan gods sculptured in a style combining prehistoric and ultra-modern art. They stare at each other across the library...