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This year, as usual, readers are writing in to suggest or guess who the choice should or will be. One letter wryly suggested that our 1967 choice should add a chapter to last year's and celebrate People Married 25 Years. The run of facetious and semi-facetious suggestions has included Girls Who Look Good in Mini skirts, The Beatles' Guru, the Sands Hotel Vice President Who Slugged Frank Sinatra, and Sgt. Pepper. While most of the proposals have been of a more serious nature, it is remarkable that this year, while we have received a heavy flow...
Viewers are also likely not to feel anything-except numbness-after ingesting this filmed version of Jacqueline Susann's wide screen novel, loose ly based on the troubles of some semi-recognizable showbiz sickies. Among them are a platinum blonde (Sharon Tate) who makes nudies to pay for her husband's stay in a sanatorium; a young singer (Patty Duke) who later turns to bedding down with strangers; and a brassy voiced Broadway zircon in the rough (Susan Hayward...
...little Versailles and architects like Nash, Vanbrugh, Inigo Jones and Wyatt were adapting Italian magnificence for English country gentlemen. The modern eye can only goggle in awe at heroic staircases, ceilings bulging with putti, acres of marble floors reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely a semi-public affair, as in Queen Victoria's railway carriage (sapphire satin and tasseled draperies with a white quilted ceiling) and not merely ostentatious, as in the dining room at London's Ritz Hotel ("the most beautiful Edwardian restaurant in existence...
...possibly the best collegiate squash player in the country, defeated Terrell 3-1 on Wednesday to remain in the number one spot. Nayar missed last Saturday's match against Cornell to play in the Gold Racquets Invitation Squash Tournament in Cedarhurst, Long Island. He fought his way into the semi-final round, but lost 3-1 to Sam Howe, National Men's Champion...
...learn that Thonet's factories spread throughout Europe, making large quantities of interchangeable parts capable of quick and easy assembly by semi-skilled workers. His markets penetrated into North and South America...