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...Jacqueline Bouvier was presented to society in a glittering affair at Newport's Clambake Club, and Society Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker (Igor Cassini, whose Designing Brother Oleg is now Jackie's exclusive couturier) was moved to announce: "This year, for the first time since our predecessor selected Brenda Frazier as the Queen of Glamour, we are ready to name the No. 1 Deb of the Year and the nine runners-up. Queen Deb of the Year is Jacqueline Bouvier, a regal debutante who has classic features and the daintiness of Dresden porcelain . . . Her family is strictly 'Old Guard...
...Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey Bogart once fought a woman over a toy panda was awash with unfiltered nostalgia, as everyone had a last fond sit on the zebra-stripe upholstery. Beaming throughout was John Perona, El Morocco's owner, and Journal-American Society Columnist "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini) pronounced the eulogy, quoting Lucius Beebe: "El Morocco and Perona are the products of emergent evolution. Nobody foresaw that through the agency of a constantly diminishing dance floor and a miniature camera all the Wrong People were overnight going to become the Right People...
...Enthusiasm was lagging," said Sidorov, "when Igor Ivanov and Gleb Nikolayev signaled to be lifted up the shaft. Everybody looked down and saw their smiling faces. Nikolayev was holding a rope, the end of which we knew was attached to the cylinder." After eight more feet of digging, the cylinder itself appeared. It was hurried back to the fast-cooling station and used to weld the base plate. Soon the main diesel was chugging again. Vostok was saved...
...later work fails to measure up to the vigorous and imaginative music of the 1920s, in which he so brilliantly enlarged the neo-classical movement. But Hindemith rarely listens to the critics. In all the 20th century, he insists, there are only two men who deserve the name Composer: Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok. And perhaps, his admirers believe, Paul Hindemith...
...world peace. By the finale, fights had broken out all over the theater. "Get out of here!" screamed the traditionalists. Replied an unCaged modernist: "Go somewhere else if you want melody! Long live music!" Cage barked at the audience; the audience barked back at Cage. One notable dissenter: Igor Stravinsky, who found the whole business so tedious that he slipped out in mid-concert. Asked if the tumult was equal to what went on at the Paris premiere of his own Sacre du Printemps in 1913. the old man replied proudly: "There has never been a scandal like mine...