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...fact is that the drinking man's diet will work in some cases, but not for many of the reasons given by its advocates. A bon vivant executive who is ordered to take off 20 or 30 Ibs. is made instantly miserable and tense by being denied most of his drinks and rich meats. Told that he can go on drinking, he stays relaxed, which reduces the temptation to nibble between meals. Also, despite a popular misconception, two or more cocktails actually depress the appetite. The drinking man feels satisfied after a filet mignon, and the little...
Died. Carl Van Vechten, 84, critic, novelist, photographer and Manhattan bon vivant, who at the age of 40 gave up a career as New York's style-setting dance and music critic to write seven popular, thinly fictionalized accounts (Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess) of his own Prohibition-era bohemian ways, at 52 launched yet another career as a renowned, and certainly magnanimous, portrait photographer (he gave his work to his subjects free of charge), all the while amassing enough Negro manuscripts and phonograph records from his old uptown haunts to establish the U.S.'s largest collection...
Stroke of Genius. There was, however, something about Lovis (so known because he spelled his name, Louis, with the Roman form of u) that never was readily tamed. He was a beefy bon vivant who invariably kept two jugs of wine by his elbow during dinner. His lust for life got him the reputation of being Germany's Van Gogh, but the real sources of Corinth's robust energy were the ruddy-cheeked oils of Rubens, Hals and Rembrandt. An exhaustive retrospective that opens this week at Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (see opposite page...
...used the chemical principle of filtration to make the trim Chemex coffeemaker, then simply placed a disk of filter paper inside a circular housing to make a new kind of fan. Spun by a motor, the rippling paper edges cast air through the rim by centrifugal force. A ban vivant of the first order, Schlumbohm made a rapid, but esthetic, champagne cooler just because he felt bachelors should not be caught short when unexpectedly entertaining women...
Except for Talk to Me, Baby ("Tell me lies, lies, lies"), Robert Emmett Dolan's score is rather do-re-mealy for Johnny Mercer's lyrics, which are at their cleverest in Bon Vivant, delivered by Lahr impersonating a British peer with mauve tweeds and a stiff upper lisp. In fact, without Bert Lahr's vintage hokum, Foxy would be earthbound, not mirthbound...