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...Aristotle), he was the prime mover of the jet set. He had residences in half a dozen cities, an Ionian island of his own and an elegant art collection. He boasted the world's most lavish yacht, the Christina, a 325-ft. rebuilt Canadian frigate complete with sumptuous bathrooms lined in Siena marble and fitted with gold-plated faucets. He also-as gossip-column readers well knew-enjoyed the company of beautiful and famous women. Fittingly, he had the ultimate jet-set consort: he startled the world by marrying Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
...everyone who'd seen their notices pasted up all over the Fogg, opened an exhibit of Eucharistic Vessels of the Middle Ages. If you're a middle ages freak, the show is fantastic. The vessels--chalices, monstrances, patens--are made of silver, copper gilt, Ivory and enamel, and are sumptuous and beautiful. The purpose of the show is to explain the relation of these objects to theology and liturgy in the middle ages. If you're at all interested in that, it's great--go see it. Through April...
Saying No. Weekends in January and early February, Boulac and his fellow coaches gather at Michiana Regional Airport in South Bend to greet prospects flown in for a packed round of parties, sumptuous meals, meetings with admissions officers and chats with Devine. Boulac admits that all this courting could leave a 17-year-old limp, particularly if ten or 15 schools are hot after him. "The toughest thing for a kid today," says Boulac, "is to say no. When a coach comes 1,000 miles to see you at home, it's hard to say you're going...
...wine snob who kept his Haut-Brion claret in a cask). His custom-de signed carriage may have meant as much to Pepys as his carefully acquired prints. And nothing seemed to have meant more to this tailor's son on the make than his sumptuous wardrobe - at a time when 36 bushels of coal cost ?3 he spent up to ?55 a month on silk suits and cloaks with gold buttons...
...AFTER A SUMPTUOUS repast not long ago, some writers sitting around a table in the corner of a large dining hall got on the subject of the coming depression--always only coming for most Harvard students. Amid the gossip of what's being written in other parts, one Kentuckian, amber-voiced and somnolent, got to talking excitedly about a book about poor back-hills people commissioned by the Louisville Courier Journal "in the style of Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Another Southerner quipped smilingly--not wanting to disparage such excitement but with full knowledge of Agee--that...