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Spree in Paris. Peggy Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum...
...Makiokas are an Osaka-based clan of proper Japanese who, unlike proper Bostonians, have dipped into capital. The four sisters who dominate Author Tanizaki's story are snobbish, overbred, illness and accident-prone, genteelly displaced persons in a Japan that is flexing its muscles for World War II. By strictly observed seniority rights, Yukiko−who at 30 is the oldest unmarried sister−must find a husband first. But Yukiko is a clinging vine who almost prefers clinging to her family. She is adept at flower-arranging, but she gets completely flustered if she has to answer...
...heard the other day, as we recall it was one of those slightly windy fall days when the whole natural process is somewhat uncertain--that folk music was dead. The oral tradition, our Jeremiah confided, was no more. And the ubiquitous tape recorders of the Lomax clan have succeeded only in attracting the curious and such aesthetes as might otherwise "mourn the Medieval grace of iron clothing...
...public relations are fond of telling you, over a gin-and-tonic, that Jesus Christ began their clan. Today they are an integral part of the white collar colossus, disseminating millions of words annually. They have a man in the White House, two national societies, unlimited expense accounts, and a language all their...
...What did he think of the Saunders-Ernst treatment? Said he: "Unpardonable slander. Something disgraceful, humiliating." Then Capp took his tongue out of his cheek and exposed the feud (sob!) as a hoax. He and Saunders cooked it up last fall in Washington at a meeting of the cartooning clan ("a pretty damn dull profession"). Rapp will go on taking raps for a few weeks until, says Capp, Saunders "casually reveals at the end that I'm not a monster." Confirmed Cartoonist Saunders: "Rapp just follows the public concept of Capp, an egotistical, arrogant, unreasonable fellow, which, of course...