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...sign over the entrance said: "Half price after 5 p.m." It was then twelve minutes to 5. Said Billionaire Getty: "Let's take a walk around the block for a few minutes." On another occasion he was persuaded by British-born Author and Actress Ethel Le Vane to send some silk ties to famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson, whom she and Getty had just visited while preparing their book, Collector's Choice, a well-reviewed narrative of their hunt for art treasures. Getty caught Collaborator Le Vane writing "From Paul and Ethel" on the accompanying card. He immediately...
...Historian Louis Hacker of Columbia University, the current college generation is a trifle depressing. "I find no political interest any more," says he. "There's no cultivation of heterogeneity. We're not looking for the maverick." But Yale's Dean William De Vane says: "I see no danger in the degree of conformity among students. Indeed, I do not believe that they conform as readily as my college generation 40 years ago." Both a puzzle and a fascination to their professors, today's college students have earned a new nickname. See EDUCATION. The No-Nonsense Kids...
...special kind of party. The management called it "The Confidential Ball-dressed for exposure," sent out invitations to some 300 of Tony's friends, most of whom accepted. They arrived dressed according to instructions-in pajamas, bathing suits or just their underwear. Among the guests: Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 25, the sister of Lord Londonderry, Sir Hugo Sebright, 26, Daphne Pattine, a cousin of the Duke of Norfolk, one Count Gerhard von Goerl, and a sprinkling of models and party girls...
With Bill Proxmire serving as their weather vane for the '58 congressional elections, the Democrats probably weren't the least bit affected by your claims that Dick Nixon scored a K.O. in the recent civil rights fiasco. Nixon will need more than TIME and Bill Rogers...
...chapel; no amount of money could ever buy the notion of creating such a thing. Eighty-five dollars bought a rocking horse, carved by some boy's loving father, which had doubtless earned over a million dollars in fantasy races. Best in show, perhaps, was an iron weather vane in the shape of a rooster, presented by an appropriately named antiquarian, Myra Tinklepaugh. "They're hard to find," Mrs. Tinklepaugh briskly allowed. "I'm dickering for another one right now, not far away, only nobody wants to climb up to get it without insurance...