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...went to Spain as a correspondent and stayed to fight against Franco's troops. When many fellow leftists sang the praises of the Cominform, he was rude enough to point out that "the thing for which the Communists were working was not to postpone the Spanish revolution till a more suitable time, but to make sure it never happened...
...Objectivity of tone?" Ross scoffs. "There's lists and lists of phony centenarians." "Have you ever seen a centenarian?" Norris adds. "I've seen three. They're incredibly frail. You're astonished that they live till breakfast...
Died. Madeleine Vionnet, 98, grande dame of French couture; in Paris. Vionnet, as she was simply known, began her trade as an apprentice seamstress at the age of eleven in 1887, opened her own fashion house in 1912, and flourished till her retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher...
...moved in with a girl friend and supported herself with menial jobs. She remembers her social life at the time as an all-singing, all-dancing marathon on the Sunset Strip ("I'd go up there and dance till dawn"). When she was 16, she went out on a double date with her friend Melissa Melcher and met Melissa's boy next door-27-year-old, newly separated Sonny Bono. Not long after, he made her an offer she could not refuse: "Look, I don't find you particularly attractive and I have no designs...
Allen has now taken to wearing dark suits and acting with restraint. "The programs of this school are secure," he says. "A bank isn't considered a failure because one of its cashiers is caught with his hand in the till." What should U. Mass look for in picking Allen's successor? "Someone who will continue my programs," says Allen, "but someone with a different style...