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...offices to match their personalities. Mike Cowles, deliberate, slow-spoken, has a sedate, paneled, 13th-floor office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while she paints...
Five days before Christmas, using the Coopersmith version, the 200 voices of the New York Oratorio Society will sing the first correct and uncut Messiah ever heard in the U.S. The differences between it and the versions previously heard would probably not be apparent to ordinary ears, but they meant a lot to meticulous musicologists. Coopersmith had found at least 50 mistakes in all standard editions of the Messiah...
Beatrice Lillie was robbed of $12,000 worth of clothes and jewelry in London. The thieves could keep it all "and no questions asked," said Comedienne Lillie, if they just returned an uncut sapphire that had belonged to her only son, Sir Robert Peel, killed in the war. Soon she got a sapphire in the mail from a sympathetic stranger ("touching and charming," said the actress), but it wasn't the sapphire...
Madame Garnett's gangling young son, who had been playing in some uncut shrubbery during the show, joined his parents inside after it was over. Her husband, an Italian businessman, poured Mumm's champagne in honor of the occasion. The guests filed out happy and admiring. Gushed a fluttery, middle-aged American guest: "It is very difficult to get materials, you know. To do a show under these conditions deserves-" Stifled by emotion, she applauded lightly with gloved hands...
Lieut. Bill Morris and his men were driven from a gully. Too late, Morris remembered that he had left behind his pack with a fruit cake just received from his mother. Next night he led a patrol back to the gully, found the fruit cake, still uncut, lugged...