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...annual list of the world's ten best-dressed women (picked by a poll run by the New York Dress Institute) had the same Old Look. The Duchess of Windsor topped it (for the third time). Mrs. Harrison Williams, as usual, was among those present, and so were Mrs. John C. Wilson and Mrs. William Paley (who used to be present as Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr.). Mrs. Howard Hawks, who was in No. 1 position last year, was in No. 8 this time. Actress Ina Claire, on the list for the first time, was already weary...
...actual lines of Whitehead's thought are so involved that a surface glance cannot do them justice. One thing, however, marks him as more than the usual scientist or philosopher: his tremendous drive to synthesize and apply philosophy, mathematics, and logic to the world in one thesis which could reach beyond the limits of each pigeon-holed science to envelop the universe...
Keystone of the success of the performance was Ann Bollinger, who sang the male lead, Idamantes, with assurance and great ability, and acted the part as well. Even the love duets, usual stumbling-block for male impersonators in the opera, went well at her hands. Naney Trickey was excellent in the part of Ilia, fulfilling particularly well the difficult assignment of holding the stage alone for more than five minutes at the start of the opera. In the role of the sinister Electra, who has the best aria of the piece, a magnificent last-act preface to suicide, Paula Lenchner...
...answerer was in turn answered by the tabloid New York Daily News. As usual, the News's rejoinder was rough & ready: "Why, Doc, we thought you knew better than that. This agency . . . is already in session. It . . . consists of perhaps 60 million Americans who read the newspapers. . . . They evaluate and criticize the press, and they register their opinions in the most emphatic way possible, by buying papers they like and not buying papers they don't like...
...block were about $200,000 worth of paintings, including items from the collections of Lord Halifax, Lord Winterton and the estate of the late Lord Rothermere. As usual, Sir Alec Martin, the 63-year-old managing director of Christie's, conducted the auction himself. Last week, the sale ended, he was able to report that Christie's had all but wound up one of its busiest years since...