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...HANDSOME Westchester matron, chic in a Hattie Carnegie dress and fragrant with Patou's Moment Suprême, passed TIME Editor James C. Keogh in New York's Grand Central Terminal, humming: "Da-vy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier!" In Beverly Hills, startled Furrier Al Teitelbaum told TIME Correspondent Ezra Goodman that a movie matron had handed him a mink stole and ordered it cut into "coonskin" caps for her two sons...
That night in Freedom Palace, Diem's revolutionary committee drew a pistol on Bao Dai's favorite general, Nguyen Van Vy. With a .45 at his stomach, Vy promised that the pro-Bao Dai units in the Vietnamese army would support Diem's government. Some of the excited young rebels wanted Vy shot on the spot, but Diem eventually let him go untroubled into the night...
...Just as George was looking for a place to start practice, a young lawyer in the little (pop. 2,200) county-seat town of Vienna (pronounced Vy-enna) decided to move on. George bought his practice and 5O-volume library for $300, hung out his shingle on a weather-beaten frame building just off Vienna's courthouse square...
...Americans are finding Premier Diem increasingly receptive to advice and ideas, and by no means a puppet. He refuses to be pushed or rushed. When Joe Collins proposed recently that General Vy be named army commander, Diem insisted on his own candidate. General Ty. "Sometimes," Diem confided, "Mr. Collins uses some very rough language." On other times it has been Collins who complained. "Get your experts out, get them working," he once prodded the Premier, to which Diem later referred: "It is easy for Mr. Collins to say it. He has experts. We have none." But out of the occasional...
Last week, as Eva beamed, José romped and roared through several performances of Halévy's La Juive, Bizet's Les Pécheurs de perles and Delibes' Lakmé. Maestro Lenzi busied himself trying to trace the s'ource of a sudden sourness in his choral arrangements. At last he pinned it down, called José into his office and fired him. Less than an hour later, Diva Eva tottered in, convulsed in sobs and imploring another chance for the young man. "But he doesn't know the first thing about singing...