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...lunchtime with some of the most expensive giggles in the world, guests' pooches eat on the house-dogs in the men's room, bitches retire to lunch in the powder room. But The Colony's management is delighted to send shut-ins Mommy's unfinished capon en geéle avec sauce niçoise...
...terrace of his villa, La Capponcina (Little Capon), overlooking Monte Carlo, William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, leans on a Malacca cane. He looks as old as he is: 84. Age has bleached his skin to wrinkled parchment; one foot is shoeless, a concession to gout; a floppy, broad-brimmed straw hat shields him from the hot Mediterranean sun. But the sun has not been up much longer than the Beaver, and he is not there merely to bask...
Alas for the poor Senate anti-rackets committee when Teamster Vice President James Hoffa "swaggered into the McClellan hearing like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
...American Capon Producers Association...
Traditionally weak on opposing courts, Princeton has been held back this season, by poor "shooting, a lacklustre defense, and the fact that several football men, notably George Sella, have not yet made a successful transition from turf to floor. Coach Cappy Capon has a short team--Bernia Adams at 6-4 is about his only tall man--which is in the habit of fouling out early, leaving Capon without five capably players...