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...party last week. What followed was enough to give any big-league manager chills & fever. No exceptions were Chicago's banjo-strumming Charlie ("Jolly Cholly") Grimm and Detroit's pug-nosed Irishman, Steve O'Neill. And what went for them went for their wives: plump, chestnut-haired Lillian Lyle Grimm and dark, buxom Mary Boland O'Neill...
...most dramatic of U.S. race horses came into the world a goblinish sort of creature. As he grew, unlovely bones poked out his chestnut hide like tentpoles. He had an elongated neck. He slept standing up. The Galloping Hatrack looked like an appropriate steed for Sleepy Hollow's legendary horseman, but he had his own legend to make...
...horse of the year, chestnut-colored Busher, has none of the foibles common to fillies. She outeats every colt in the stable; far from being a high-strung prima donna, she is a lazy worker who never does anything more than is asked...
Last week chestnut-haired Maggie Teyte, 56 but still vivacious, returned to the U.S. to tour in a new role. She starts with a July 23 appearance on NBC's Telephone Hour and she has a large and enthusiastic audience waiting-but not the nostalgic audience of yesterday. Her waiting fans are a young generation of phonograph-record connoisseurs, who for the past five years have prized her records of 19th-Century French songs. Many of her new fans are unaware that Maggie Teyte has ever been...
...composer's Russian-born mother, chestnut-haired Rose Gershwin, basks in her son's posthumous adulation and largesse. Like her sons (George's brother Ira, who wrote the lyrics to some of George's best tunes, is now songwriting in Hollywood), she long ago left Manhattan's grubby East Side behind, now lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park. Last week, in an orange-brown gown and with fingernails lacquered scarlet, she went to see Warner's Rhapsody. "It was sad," she said; "not for me is this a time to show...