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Peter De Vries had a lunch date in Manhattan recently with visiting British Novelist Kingsley Amis. De Vries spared no effort to round up a third for lunch, his New Yorker colleague, E. B. ("Andy"') White. The anticipated lunatic-fringe benefit: De Vries would breeze home to Westport, Conn, and tell his wife: "I had lunch today with Amis and Andy...
...Westport, Conn., County Playhouse: Shaw's Arms and the Man, with Tony Randall (until July 4); A Piece of Blue Sky (new play...
Haym Soloveitchik '58, of Dudley House and Roxbury, David J. Steinberg '59, of Leverett House and New York City, Robert B. Strassler '59, of Kirkland House and Westport, Ct., Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. '59, of Winthrop House and Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Theodore I. Wallace Jr. '59, of Dunster House and Elmhurst, III., John L. Warner '59, of Dudley House and Detroit, Mich., Andrew L. Warshaw '59, of Adams House and Jamaica, N.Y., Gordon H. Williams '59, of Kirkland House and Kansas City, Kan., Robert I. Willman '59, of Lowell House and Grand Island, Neb., and Theodore S. Zimmerman...
...train to Westport (so goes the story), a junior advertising executive was eagerly reading a book in a plain wrapper. The train hit a New Haven bump, the book fell to the floor, and the title was revealed for all to see: The Status Seekers. By the rules of status seeking, it was a serious goof: no smart social climber wants to be caught showing too much interest in the book, since anyone in secure social status should be above any concern with the restless and near-universal scramble for position that Author Vance (The Hidden Persuaders) Packard undertakes...
...interest are "profane"; boys tend to go into fields like math, chemistry, or psychology instead of more culturally oriented subjects like Fine Arts or Literature. "In the long run, however, this all works out for the best," Pettigrew concluded. "The girls can bring their more exotic interests into their Westport home, and supply their money-earning husbands with a cultural basis they might otherwise lack...