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Enjoyment of Living, which the jacket calls "the candid story of an exciting life," covers only his first 33 years (he is now 64). The excitement is largely buried under Eastman's incessant self:analysis (of his character, his personality, his libido), which makes up a good half of the book. The candor will strike many readers as needless bad taste...
From the city there were white gauntlets and a white doeskin jacket; from the Glencoe Club a leather belt with solid gold buckle, and elkskin riding boots. The Calgary Exhibition and Stampede tossed in a Hudson's Bay blanket coat, a pair of Point blankets, a white felt hat and a pair of white whipcord riding breeches. Barbara Ann dressed up in her cowgirl clothes (see cut), posed happily for Calgarians. Said she: "I have always wanted a cowgirl outfit for my very own and I have always wanted to see a real live Indian...
...Home. At LaGuardia Field, N.Y., the American Airlines' lost & found department was looking interestedly for whatever party lost a case of beer, an automatic backscratcher, three burlesque-type G-strings, a strait jacket...
Struggle for the Minimum. A meticulous dandy, Matisse wears a light tweed jacket and tie when he is painting. Never using a palette, he squeezes the colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and uses them just as they come out of the tube, except for the addition of a little turpentine. Each picture starts with a fairly detailed charcoal sketch; he gradually simplifies it as he paints. This process of simplification, he says, is the very symbol of his life: "A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements...
Pierpont was willing to comply with the minor provisions of Avon's code, such as fly-casting and a school uniform (now modified, at night, to a dark jacket), so long as he didn't have to be too literal about the major ones. Particularly, he doesn't believe, as Mrs. Riddle did, that there is one class privileged to produce gentlemen. He is as anxious to turn out gentlemen as she was, but believes that they can be made, not necessarily prenatally. Without Mrs. Riddle to make up its $25,000 a year losses, Avon will...