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Walter Winchell did not present a problem when Emily Post began piloting Americans along the winding bayous of gracious living, and the proper adjustments of falsies was not a matter of social import. But manners change: this week, Socialite Amy Vanderbilt (a 44-year-old offshoot of the Staten Island Vanderbilts, who is married to Photographer Hans Knopf) brought out a new book of etiquette which is unblushingly concerned with areas of human endeavor which ladies & gentlemen did not discuss-or had not yet discovered-back in the day of the bustle and the Prince Albert beard...
...that Arbiter Vanderbilt has been stingy with advice for those who may have to hold a hunt breakfast, staff a 100-room mansion, or participate in an evening horse show (a dinner jacket is often worn with evening trousers cut slightly narrow in the leg with elastic straps under the insteps). But in Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette (Doubleday; plain $5, indexed $5.75), a 700-page tome, the author not only writes with an un-verbenaed frankness but has pushed the horizon of social propriety out to include such goings-on as divorce proceedings, the entertainment...
...when before the TV cameras, she advises; it reflects light glaringly. When properly approached, it is socially permissible to endorse foods, liquors, cosmetics and cars, but such intimate products as tooth paste, depilatories and underwear are obviously unsuitable. What to do about gossip columnists? "A well-known individual," Miss Vanderbilt seems to feel, will just have to "endure" them-unless a "damaging" story warrants a libel suit. Apparently aware that some of her readers are not trying to avoid columnists, she blandly adds: "The debutante who . . . enters a nightclub with a gazelle on a leash can be virtually sure...
...announced its annual selec tion of the ten best-dressed men in the U.S. Top man (in public life): 82-year-old Bernard Baruch. The nine runners-up: Cleveland Indians General Manager Hank Greenberg, 41 (sports), Hotelman Conrad Hilton, 63 (industry), Band Leader Guy Lombardo, 50 (music), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 40 (society), Arthur Murray, 57 (dancing), Yul Brynner, 36 (stage), Robert Montgomery, 48 (radio-TV), Gene Kelly, 40 (screen), Paper Manufacturer Harry E. Gould, 54 (business...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's undefeated, two-year-old Native Dancer, the $107,545 Belmont Futurity, in the world-record-equaling time of1 min. 14 2/5 sec. for 6½ furlongs; on the Widener Course straightaway at Belmont. Odds-on choice at 1 to 3, the dark grey colt (by Polynesian, out of Geisha) brushed his opposition aside in the stretch to win his eighth straight race...