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...Paris, Buchwald sees "anyone who is in the news," has become as much of a celebrity as many of the people he interviews. Once when he complained "how difficult it is to get into the Savoy in a dinner jacket borrowed from a waiter," one of his readers sent him a hand-me-down tuxedo which he still wears ("It's getting a little tight under the arms"). He drops names as easily as he gulps an outsize portion of pâte de foie gras. "We had lunch recently with the . . . Aga Khan," writes Buchwald. "His Highness told...
...classic suit is back as an indispensable part of the college wardrobe. It looks as it has for years--straight skirt, sometimes slit, fitted jacket. Tweeds, small checks and dark colors are still prominent. For the game, for church or Sunday afternoon walks in the country, it takes wear and tear and still does not reveal whether or not the wearer has spent the afternoon wrestling at Dunster...
...Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the script is a sort of reefed-in version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Instead of Clark Gable there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even in the squalor of a windjammer's brig, carries himself as if he were wearing a dinner jacket under his rags. Instead of Charles Laughton there is James Mason, who makes (whenever he raises his voice above its customary elegant whisper) a fetching younger version of Captain Bligh. The wishbone of contention between Ladd and Mason is provided by a chicken named Patricia Medina, who offers...
...Harvard Band provided one of the weekend's most amusing moments when it indulged in a bit of self-derision. During the Dartmouth game, PETER STRAUSS '54 (top) drew applause by leading the band in this striped prisoner's jacket. The jacket is an allusion to Strauss incarceration in the New Haven jug following a 3 a.m. concert at Yale...
...course. "Other guys," he explains, "were taking the course who didn't seem particularly inclined that way either, so I tried it." His teacher, a former truck driver, liked to fly the Waco trainers upside down, and the "first thing I noticed was that my cigarettes in my jacket pocket were falling out and slipping past my face...