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...does not smoke, sips a single sherry or Campari before dinner, and occasionally twirls a brandy glass afterward. A bachelor, he lives modestly in a two-room apartment a few paces from Berkeley Square. One of his few indulgences is a sizable stereophonic record collection; though he is fond of art ("I'm afraid the abstracts don't appeal to me"), his most valuable pictures are a pair of landscapes in oil, signed W.S.C., that were a gift from the Old Gentleman who painted them. He occasionally takes a girl out to dinner, but even the inventive British...
...return for a rids on his financial coattails. Said one Manhattan socialite: "I always thought Gilbert was rather gauche, ill at ease and pushy. But I just felt that a guy that ambitious for himself might bring my money up with him." Wealthy London Dandy John Aspinall grew so fond of Eddy that in 1959 he threw a $15.000 party for him in a Belgrave Square mansion decked out to resemble the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Among the 150 guests were such notable continental play people as Linda Christian and the Maharajah of Jaipur. Sighed Aspinall last week: "Eddy...
...Anyone," Milty thinks, "who loves and treasures his food will come to us." So far, this hasn't proved strictly correct. Charlie's Snack Bar, a neighboring establishment at 37 Boylston Street, seems to treasure its own food, but to be less than fond of Milty's. Charlie's has, in fact, welcomed Milty to the Square with a large sign embroidered with short punchy statements that seem to want to pretend they form some sort of crude syllogism. "Your Health Comes First," they proclaim. "Cheap Food Is Not Good. You Can't Save Money From Your Stomach." This last...
...this work the playwright drew on a number of sources ("Je prends mon bien ou je le trouve," he was fond of saying), including Aristophanes, Plautus, Boccaccio, and an earlier farce of his own. Added significance lies in the fact that Moliere was at the time having marital troubles of his own with his young adulterous wife Armande, which may account in part for the bitter tone of the play (though the title role itself is only sympathetic by comparison...
...welfare: "It is clear that we have come a long way from the concept of protecting the unfortunate, and have moved close to the idea of a socialization of incomes." Stans is more analyst than stylist: "Let me particularize," he is fond of saying as he warms to an earnest exposition of the Communist economic threat. He exhibits a practiced columnar hand by asking himself a question and then answering it: "Can business discipline itself?" ("Yes"), or "Can we believe in statistics?" ("Sometimes"). Somehow the answers spin out to proper length...