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Gadding about California with time out to watch some rocket tests, roughhewn Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson put on his dinner jacket one evening and showed up in Pasadena at the coronation ball honoring Pasadena City College coed Joan Culver, 18, new queen of the Tournament of Roses, which adds to the hoopla of the Rose Bowl football game. In the vanguard of the traditional mammoth parade through Pasadena this week, "Engine Charlie" Wilson rode in a flossy, rose-festooned convertible as the procession's grand marshal...
...wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints for husbands: 1) take an hour to dress, 2) always wear suspenders, 3) in public be gartered, 4) flash at least half an inch of cuff below jacket sleeves, 5) always wear a vest with a single-breasted suit, 6) avoid an excess of jacket padding, 7) get chummy with a good tailor...
...compulsive concern with things creative may contrast strangely with an intense interest in varsity basketball and football, but for Albert J. Guerard, 41-year-old professor of English, the contrast is merely one of many that fill both his career and his personality. A Californian who wears a checked jacket but carries a staid green book bag, an American with an intimate knowledge of the wartime French underground, and a writer of fiction who also is a critic of writers, Guerard humorously regards himself as a "controlled schizophrenic...
Even the dashing young man in the plaid jacket, red Bermuda shorts, and plaid knccsox, could not provoke more raised eyebrows than did Marlene Dictrich in her gown of filmy gauze. Miss Dictrich demonstrated the truth of the widely accepted notion that women's clothing attracts more attention than do men's. Yet feminine styles and trends are oftimes obscure to the Harvard man, to say nothing of the Radcliffe girl...
...jacket blurbs of Frederic Prokosch's latest book proudly advertise the conversion of "one of our finest descriptive writers" into a man who for the first time makes his background subordinate to his action, wastes no time on externals, and turns out a story with a good, vigorous plot. There is no doubt that plot is a fine thing, but in A Tale for Midnight, the author has used it only as a device for holding strings of words together. He was probably more honest when, in earlier works like The Asiatics he made no excuse for his writing save...