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...Hugh Sidey's assessment of Lyndon B. Johnson should be preserved in the National Archives as the best assessment to date of the vainest, most temperamental, blundering egotist to serve in the White House...
Ruben's Life of Marie de Medici by Jacques Thuillair. 158 pages, plus 108 color pages. Abrams. $125. In 1622 history's richest and most lavish painter was retained by the vainest and most powerful woman in France to create an appropriate tribute to herself. The result -more than a score of enormous panels-now fills a whole room of the Louvre. There visitors are free to ramble past acres of pearly, naked flesh and hectares of jewels and velvet, observing Marie, attended by nymphs, monsters, peacocks, courtiers, gods, satyrs and angels, as she makes a near mythological...
Revealing List. Mencken strikes the same strident tone in the 400 letters culled by Editor Forgue from his massive correspondence of 15,000. "Of my inventions," he once wrote, "I am vainest of Bible Belt, booboisie, smuthound and Boobus americanus." The list is revealing. It bears the date and the outdatedness of the '20s, along with such storied fossils as bathtub gin, the Black Bottom and the Stutz Bearcat. The fate of a successful iconoclast is to be buried with the icons he smashed...
...pole vault, the U.S.'s outspoken Don ("Tarzan'') Bragg, 25, had made such an impression on the Italian press that one paper called him "the handsomest athlete in Rome and perhaps the vainest." Holder of the world record at 15 ft. 9¼ in., Bragg caused a brief flurry when he flubbed his first try at the qualifying height of 14 ft. 5¼ in. But when the competition settled down, Bragg forgot his nerves, his gimpy right knee, and the fact that he had to hoist a heavyweight's body...
...vainest son of a bitch that ever lived...