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What is so damned comical about one of Jean Simmons' admirers asking her for a pic ture of her feet? . . . Du Maurier in his classic Trilby devoted page after page to descriptions of Trilby's beautiful feet. In the novels of such romantics as Théophile Gautier, Restif de la Bretonne, Pierre Louÿs, Sacher-Masoch and Emile Zola, the heroine's feet are always lovely, frequently bare, and often kissed by the hero...
...ARTS TURE...
Durocher's Trick. The big surprise of the season was what had kept the Brooklyn bums up so long. The answer was easy: it was all an Indian rope trick by the Dodgers' dapper Leo Ernest ("The Lip") Durocher (pronounced Dee-ro-ture in Brooklyn), a man who owns 20 pairs of shoes and pays $175 apiece for his suits...
...Universities of Georgia and Ten nessee are shaking up their programs to suit local needs. Georgia is spending $150,-ooo this summer for research in bee cul ture, meat curing, grass culture, artificial insemination of cattle...
...escapist Utopias that mush roomed in the shadow of the industrial revolution. Father Rapp's was the least suggestive of milk & honey. His first ven ture was in Germany. The spiritual leader of a flock of phlegmatic German peasants, Peasant Rapp was a mystic with a sound business head. In 1804 he brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists...