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...Social Register it's not, and it's spicier than Who's Who. What the new version of the Celebrity Register is, says its movie-credit-like cover, is "an Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables edited by Cleveland Amory with Earl Blackwell." Ringmaster Amory, who killed society, has now set about celebrities, and when in doubt on what to say, he has dropped back and punned. Marlon Brando is "the all-time tempest in a T-shirt." Tommy Manville is "an altar-ego." Eva Gabor is "strictly from Hungary." Alfred Hitchcock is the "star of staged...
Chief Justice Earl Warren has now ruled the idea out of order. In a letter to the Capitol architect, Warren expressed the judgment of his colleagues that "ornamentation other than that provided in the original plans would detract from the total concept of the building...
...that he might win the by-election and take his place in the House of Commons as leader of the government. Until then, for the first time in history, Britain has a Prime Minister without a seat either in the Lords or Commons, prompting the crack that the denobilized earl is "a Home without a House." In the Commons facing the Prime Minister's empty seat, Labor's Harold Wilson thundered that postponing Parliament's next session to suit Douglas-Home's convenience was tantamount to treating M.P.s like "awkward or refractory tenants" and constituted...
Answering Wilson's gibe that the choice of a 14th earl as Prime Minister is an "elegant anachronism," he said dryly: "I suppose Mr. Wilson, when you come to think of it, is the 14th Mr. Wilson. If all men are equal, well, that's a very good doctrine. But are we to say that all men are equal except peers?" Harold, who was promptly dubbed "the 14th Mr. Wilson" by the press, for the moment made no more attacks on the Tory leader's genealogy, and in fact paid him a grudging compliment. "The Tory Party...
Abercrombie & Fitch sells clothes too -men's clothes, that is. Chief Justice Earl Warren bought two $110 sets of cashmere underwear there for duck shooting, and an emissary of Pope Pius XII bought him a $450 vicuna dressing gown. But Abercrombie never lost much sleep on the girls-if they insisted on coming along. Judging from what they offered women who would ahunting go, Abercrombie's idea of female sporting wear was to shrink down a man's khaki shirt, slack off the seat of the trousers, and add a veil to the sun helmet. Part...