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...trip into the city, a roaring crowd of half a million (said the Red radio) tossed flower petals. Lampposts were festooned with bunting, and at Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace colored balloons floated skyward trailing slogans of greetings. It was just about the biggest and gaudiest welcome Peking had organized for any visitor ever-including the 1959 one for Nikita Khrushchev...
That woman is Mrs. Helen Bonfils Davis, a 20% Post stockholder and elderly daughter of the late Frederick G. Bonfils, who with Harry H. Tammen, his partner, built the Post into the gaudiest and most successful daily west of the Mississippi. Before Mrs. Davis' outraged eyes, Outsider Newhouse had committed two unpardonable sins. One was to covet her father's paper, about which Mrs. Davis harbors a passionate sense of proprietorship. The other Newhouse sin was to buy his 15% from Helen's older sister, May Bonfils Stanton...
...city except respectable Rome has its striptease shows, the bawdiest are in Paris, Hamburg and Brussels. Among the popular places: Brussels' Chez Paul au Gaity; Paris' flashy Lido, and the broader diversions of the famed Crazy Horse. Hamburg's Reeperbahn nightclub strip is Germany's gaudiest and roughest...
...longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures of his day, and ruled much of the movie business with his special brand of sanctimonious piracy...
...early May. By then, Elvis will again be supporting himself in the civilian style to which he is currently unaccustomed, collecting a cool $125,000 for a network appearance with Frankie. Elvis, proudly wearing medals for good conduct and marksmanship, promised that he will soon climb back into his gaudiest working mufti, agitate his pelvis as of yore ("If I stand still, I'm dead") and "never abandon rock 'n' roll as long as people keep appreciatin' it." But Army rigors had at least one benign effect upon him: he won't regrow his crazy...