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...Rome, a reporter dropped around to her night club for a chat with Bricktop (Ada Smith Du Congé), famed as a cabaret hostess among Paris' Left Bank literary set in the '20s. Asked if she remembered F. Scott Fitzgerald, the throaty West Virginia-born Negro songstress said: "Sho-nuf darling, I remember all those darlings. There was Scott, and his wife Zelda, she was nice. There was Hemingway, too, already famous. And Louis Bromfield and John Steinbeck. Steinbeck, he's my darling of all darlings, except of course Cole Porter. He's my favorite...
...France. Bruce knows the French economy as few Frenchmen do. With a politician's touch, he gets on superbly with France's politicians. He speaks perfect French, owns a trained musical ear, an art connoisseur's eye, and a winetaster's palate (the Chevaliers du Tastevin, a group of winebibbers sworn never to let water pass their lips, have elected him grand master). With the help of his pretty second wife, he entertains prodigiously (one Fourth of July reception cost as much as the entire official entertainment allowance for the year). Like London, Paris...
Milhaud: La Création du Monde (the Columbia Chamber Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Composer Milhaud made two trips to the U.S. in the early '20s, and went back to Paris jumping with jazz. In this score for a Ballet Négre (1923), he proves that he caught the inflection better than many a serious U.S. composer has yet. The performance (with Benny Goodman taking the solo clarinet part) is in the groove. Recording: good...
...Du Font's titanium-based paint, for exteriors. It "cleans" itself over the years by powdering off with the dirt...
When Fair Deal trustbusters three years ago charged nine of the biggest U.S. paint companies with conspiring to fix prices, seven of the accused pleaded nolo contendere and paid $5,000 fines apiece. Only E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and the Glidden Co. decided to fight the charge. During a 50-day jury trial in Pittsburgh's federal district court, Du Pont and Glidden argued that they had exchanged price information but had not fixed prices. Their licensing of patents on lacquer, they insisted, was well within...