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...Loves Me is shamelessly romantic, head over heels in love with love. For the Broadway theater this is quite a switch; its musicomedy heroes and heroines of the last couple of seasons have been more in thrall to cupidity than Cupid. What makes the heart beat faster in How to Succeed is money; in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, money; in Stop the World, money; in No Strings, money and in Little Me, men with money. The theme of Oliver! is a dreadful lack of money, and in Tovarich the problem is how to get rid of boodles...
...savages like "Hangman" Heydrich and Ilse Koch. But as the handful of notorious Nazis was again and again brought to public account, it became easier and easier for the rest of the Germans to think of themselves as innocent victims-lambs who had been set upon and held in thrall by wolves...
...number of connoisseurs drooling as sympathetically over the slice-of-cake school of art as literary critics once took to the slice-of-life. Among those who snapped up Thiebaud's canvases: Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. Collector James Thrall Soby, Architect Philip Johnson...
...Sands Hotel in Vegas was more than the usual Clanbake. Attending, along with his abrasive mixture of court jesters, were the President's sisters: Pat Kennedy Lawford and Jean Kennedy Smith. But the emissaries from Washington were upstaged by another newcomer, Marilyn Monroe, who sat in thrall at ringside, and was Frankie's date after the show. Denying the inevitable rumors, Marilyn remembered her lines. "Yes," she confided to the press, "We've been together five or six times, but we're just friends. Friends," she continued, thoughtfully, "are a girl's best friends...
...Criticism is the art of affection," says James Thrall Soby, and he has made himself a leading U.S. art critic by writing 31 affectionate books about painters he admires. As chairman of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's department of painting and sculpture exhibitions, he is equally in the public eye. But only his friends have known that Soby, while helping guide the museum's buying. >has for years been assembling a collection of his own, using the fortune he inherited from his family's interests in Connecticut shade-tobacco growing and pay-telephone manufacturing...