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Lamas & Top Hats. At his side one of the world's two American-born reigning princesses* became Sikkim's Queen. Ex-New Yorker Hope Cooke (Sarah Lawrence '63) became Her Highness Hope Namgyal, Gyalmo (Queen) of Sikkim. She wore a pearl chaplet, a red bhakku over a white silk gown, and high-heeled shoes for the occasion. Her vast hazel eyes downcast, she whispered "Thank you, thank you," as a parade of lamas and top-hatted guests pressed forward to present the royal couple with cards marked with mystic symbols and heaps of white scarves for good...
After 15 Lbs. In 1946 the born-and-bred New Yorker chose acting as the easiest thing to do on the G.I. Bill sides the Dramatic Workshop was then near Madison Square Garden, and "I didn't want to miss too many events." At the moment, having lost bringing in Odd Couple, Matthau considers acting "the hardest job known to mankind," and he works and worries his craft to unusual perfection...
...Yorker last year called him "the greatest athlete for his age that the world has ever seen". Hashim denies that he is more than 50 years old, but friends say that 57 is closer to the truth. And he is second only to his several years younger than Hashim...
...Goodness & Virtue." The decision involved three men of such individualistic faiths that their draft boards did not credit them with having "a belief in a Supreme Being" as the draft act demands for exemption from duty. New Yorker Daniel Seeger is an agnostic who believes in "goodness and virtue for their own sakes," and has no faith in God "except in the remotest sense" Arno Sascha Jakobson, also of New York, accepts a creative "supreme reality in which "the existence of man is the result." California's Forest Britt Peter believes in "some power manifest in nature which helps...
...Luck, Bad Judgment. Gross, now 45, was the youngest man and the first non-New Yorker ever to run the New York system. His luck, which had always been good, deserted him from the first: at once he faced the threat of a citywide strike by the muscle-prone United Federation of Teachers and a massive school boycott by civil rights leaders. Gross resolved to "deal with the system on its own terms, until I know my way around and know where the traps...