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Rarely does a school catalogue qualify as literature, but once in a while one appears whose clan, whose style, whose theme must stand as art, not mere advertisement. Such a brochure is that of the Academic Moderne, 35 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. It is dedicated to "The Development of Woman's Most Precious Possession, 'Natural Femininity'." Our first through is that this "Natural Femininity" might not be so hard to come by for members of the female sex, but as we move through the pamphlet, the special qualifications of both "natural" and "feminine" become apparent...
...Family. In his zest, his super-salesmanship, his devotion to beer, Gussie Busch follows in the well-marked footsteps of his beer-baron ancestors. The brewery is still controlled by the founding families. Together with St. Louis' Anheuser family, the Busch clan owns 65% of Anheuser-Busch's 4,816,218 outstanding shares; Gussie himself owns 22%, worth some $20 million, and is paid a salary of $150,000 a year. Eberhard Anheuser, the 74-year-old grandson of one of the founders, is chairman of the board, but Gussie, grandson of the other founder...
...apron strings, has long wanted to know more about his deceased British father, whom his mother always refers to as "a moron." When poolside sex and liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams, a brunette witch of a first cousin named Olive...
Noah Had Three Sons. In 1880 young Anton was 20 and all but the sole support of a threadbare clan of eight. His grocer father was too broke to keep his family in staples. His two older brothers were swaggering Moscow bohemians. No prig himself, Anton can confess: "I was so drunk all the time that I took bottles for girls, and girls for bottles...
...Communist troops struck at the nationalist Ngo Dinh clan, raiding the mansion at Hue and burning Diem's collection of 10,000 books. The Communists arrested Diem; they took hold of Diem's respected elder brother, Ngo Dinh Khoi and buried him alive. But only four months later Ho Chi Minh, concluding that he needed the backing of some pure nationalists, summoned Ngo Dinh Diem from prison. "Come and live with me at the palace...