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Ramsey W. Hall, 26, son of a North Carolina judge, was a topnotch graduate student in English at Nashville's Vanderbilt University. He was a big man, 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 Ibs., and as far as anyone knew he was gentle and re strained. One night last January he went berserk: three policemen tried to subdue him. Ever since, Nashville has been up in arms over the fact that in the subsequent fight he was killed by the police...
...customers are the same women who have been buying from Mainbocher, Balenciaga, Givenchy and Dior for years. The list includes such current Best-Dressed women as Lee Radziwill, Christina Ford and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, as well as Best-Dressed Hall of Famers Gloria Guinness, Jackie Kennedy, "Babe" Paley and Jayne Wrightsman. The key to Valentino's rise: in a fashion world gone mad for mod, he designs clothes of great taste and elegance for women who prize beauty above eccentricity...
...tack, and came within a point of victory over Lew Alcindor and the unbeaten, No. 1-ranked U.C.L.A. Bruins. Alcindor wound up with only 13 points. At the buzzer, the score was tied 31-31; U.C.L.A. salvaged a 40-35 overtime victory. And then there was No. 10-ranked Vanderbilt, also forced into overtime to pull out a 51-41 victory over freeze-minded Georgia...
...more than 50 years, the flinty, down-East salesman peddled wilderness wares of his own making to grizzled backwoodsmen as well as fugitives from Abercrombie & Fitch. Among those who bought his snowshoes, fishing tackle and what have you were Bernard Baruch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Doris Day and Amy Vanderbilt. To meet the demand, Bean employed 120 workers, also maintained a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year ("When hunters need something, they want it right away") retail outlet. But 80% of his sales were mail orders, generated by a quaint, cluttered catalogue that utterly delighted...
Among the latest quartets are the Four-Fifths, one-fourth of which is Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., and the What Four, which includes, for kicks, Mrs. Huntington Hartford, wife of the A. & P. fellow. That takes care of everything but the kitch-no, it doesn't. Sure enough, a new quintet just arrived: the Kitchen Cinq...