Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the party was held to introduce fashion favorite Norman Norell's venture into the heady world of perfumery, the star of the after-hours bash at Bonwit Teller's department store in Manhattan was Lauren Bacall, who held court with her left leg propped on a dainty gilt chair. She had torn a cartilage at another party honoring still another designing guru, Yves Saint Laurent. "I thought I was Margot Fonteyn on the dance floor and promptly slipped," said Lauren. "And now as I go spreading joy through New York, I'm paying for it every...
...Friday night Arlo Guthrie was outstanding, and there can no longer be any doubt that Arlo knows other "songs" besides "Alice's Restaurant." Arlo is an artist who is incredibly witty and imaginative and although his raps are somewhat reminiscent of Jack Elliot's, he is a great story teller in his own right and is evolving a form that provides tremendous freedom. Arlo is also an excellent musician, and that fact is somehow reassuring or at least worthy of admiration...
...SUNFLOWER AS BIG AS THE SUN, by Shan Ellentuck (Doubleday; $3.95). Uncle Vanya is a most lovable-and most effective-teller of tall tales. Everything he says about his sunflower comes true; it grows and grows, completely shutting out the sun from the small Russian village. When he finally tells the truth, the sunflower shrinks back to normal size and everyone celebrates. The illustrations are colorful and peasant in feeling...
...pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis, one of Britain's Outer Hebrides islands, who accidentally swallowed enough weed killer to damage one of his lungs critically. The donor: Anne Main, an 18-year-old Edinburgh bank teller who died as a result of an overdose of aspirin-like painkiller. Tight-lipped in reaction to the press publicity that followed Dr. Donald N. Ross's London heart transplant two weeks ago, Logan and his colleagues would say nothing more than "The patient is doing well-at present...
...suit the venturesome male mood, mod boutiques are proliferating in department stores, from Manhattan's Bonwit Teller and Chicago's Marshall Field to Sakowitz in Houston and Bullock's in Los Angeles. Current symbol of the freer male attitude is the turtleneck pullover now being worn by just about everybody from Lyndon Johnson, who fancies the comfort of turtlenecks for travel aboard Air Force One, to the Duke of Windsor, who slips into one for small, informal dinner parties. To go with tuxedos for evening, turtlenecks are becoming fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with...