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...whose career spanned some 300 films; of a heart disease; in Hollywood. It pained Mowbray to be typecast as the perfect butler, which he played in 1937's Tapper and only four other films. In fact, he was so much at home in such roles (the tax-tortured tailor in The Boys from Syracuse, 1940; the lacy interior decorator in Jackpot, 1950) that the late John Barrymore could call him "a worthy adversary...
...Half sister, really. After Barbra's father died in 1943, her mother married Louis Kind, a Brooklyn tailor and Roslyn's father...
Flying Womb. Being recognized first requires being seen-and the spanking convinced longtime Recluse Hefner that he must widen his horizons. He began by widening his lapels: off came the bathrobes and cardigan sweaters, on went $15,000 worth of Edwardian suits from Chicago Tailor George Mashbitz. He quit taking amphetamines, started getting six or eight hours of sleep every day, worked out on a slant board and an exercise bicycle, and gradually built his weight back up to 175 lbs. He turned most of the day-to-day operation of his enterprises over to subordinates, and made travel plans...
...campaign must have horrified most of his liberal opponents. But now that Tricky Dick is President, that same shiftiness has become liberal America's main hope. Perhaps the campaign bombast about law-in-order and the Forgotten Americans was merely a shrewd ploy that Nixon's men had tailor-made to appeal to the 1968 voter. If so, Nixon comfortably ensconced in the White House might conveniently forget some of his more vehement campaign stands and try to Bring Us Together--possibly for a 1972 campaign...
...Since he has no bank account and little cash, he has reluctantly sold 1,850 of them in order to live. Still, Sapone has rejected offers of $20,000 for a pointillist abstract dancer by Gino Severini and $60,000 for an exceptionally sensitive Alberto Giacometti portrait of the tailor's daughter Aika...