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Harvard's stunning 4-3 win over Brown on Saturday showed off some of the more gala costumes of the school's athletic year...
Singer Charles Aznavour sawed ample Actress Raquel Welch in half; Kootchy-Kootchy Girl Charo cavorted with trained sea lions. The occasion: a French-American amateur-circus gala in Santa Monica, Calif., held to raise money for a pair of show business charities. During rehearsals, the big top's top attraction promised to be Actress Valerie Perrine riding a 2½-ton elephant named Misty. As Perrine and pachyderm practiced, Misty got rambunctious and almost turned the startled actress into a barefront rider. No matter. "I adore Misty; I wish I could buy an elephant," gushed Valerie. "Just one more...
...glorious, gala night for Rhodesia's whites. Champagne flowed, ladies wore elegant gowns, their men were in tuxedos and regimental kilts. At midnight, after guests saluted him with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, Prime Minister Ian Smith rang Rhodesia's silver Independence Bell an even dozen times, greeting the start of the twelfth year since his regime unilaterally broke away from Britain. The festivities may mark the last time that whites in Rhodesia can celebrate that particular act of independence. But the mood at the ball was stubbornly defiant. In the spirit of the occasion...
...pose as intruders-in order to crowd out the real ones. Says Maggie: "The time is coming when we'll have to employ our own egg throwers to throw eggs at us, and, my God, of course, miss their aim, when we go to the opera on a gala night." Jewel and art thieves, Communist lawyers, peculating financiers-all descend on Maggie and leave her fortune in tatters...
...this age of universal gourmandise, hardly a celebrity in the U.S. will not confess to being a closet chef. To put unsung Escoffiers in the limelight-and raise some money-the March of Dimes' New York chapter held a gourmet gala at the Waldorf-Astoria last week. Over hot stoves and chopping boards that ringed the ballroom, 26 contestants from the beautiful, the clever and the famed doggedly demonstrated their epicurean eptitude...