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...Belmont Park, long known as the Newmarket of America, last week tried to become the Longchamps of America too. As an accessory to the $5,000 Fashion Stakes (opening-day feature for two-year-old fillies), President Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt set up a runway on a balcony café overlooking the paddock, got ten Manhattan smartshops to send clotheshorses to parade between races...
...collective debut: the Sophistichords. But they deftly turned English and European songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby's, had not been hard to find. Plain people know it-in Manhattan's Café Society and on CBS's Duffy's Tavern-as one of the best of the small ones...
...cafés Tipperary-a controversial song in the Balkans these days-and Oj Srbjo, a Serbian battle song, sounded and resounded until dawn. The crowds danced the wild Serbian kolo until they were exhausted. Even the mothers and fathers of young men who had just gone off to military stations joined in the shouting...
Painting was fun for Auguste Renoir all his life long. Women were his never-failing subjects. He painted them in bustles and fichus, gaily sipping aperitifs in cafés along the Seine, waltzing on the crowded floor of the Moulin de la Galette, undressing, getting out of bed, bathing, fixing their hair, sunning themselves naked. His brushes gloated over their rosy curves, imparted to their flesh a luminous, porcelainlike transparency unequaled since the days of Rubens...
Married. Wilma Baard, 23, blonde model and bargemaster's daughter who achieved fame two years ago when 14 Manhattan café cowboys sponsored her "debut" in protest at the Brenda Frazier hoopla; and Count Nava del Tajo, 25, distant relative of the Duke of Alba; in Manhattan...