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...landscape of imaginary objects utterly divorced from reality. Like Arp, he drew "biomorphs," or lifelike forms-egg shapes, darning sticks, blobs crisply drawn over tempera grounds. To shock the stuffy, he dutifully garlanded a guitar with ivy and epaulets, fitted a stool with four female legs clad in silk stockings. But if he seemed to be trying only to be fashionable, he was nonetheless learning to break down the four dimensions of cubism, and to free art from slavish analysis of natural structure. A show of 47 works that opens this week at Manhattan's D'Arcy Galleries...
Penthouses & Fishbowls. Inside the Johansen house, the concave surfaces of the walls are finished in plaster, silk or Italian glass tile. The shell walls surround a living room with a fireplace in its own enclosed area, a dining room large enough for twelve, a skylighted kitchen, a master bedroom with two baths, a sitting room, and a penthouse study for the doctor. From here, he can wigwag through the skylight into the kitchen when he is ready for lunch. There is also a separate guest house that can accommodate six when the occasion arises...
From Manhattan's Masie Cox, 18, to Washington D.C.'s Nikia Clark, 18, the presentation of 50 girls at the silk-bedecked International Debutante Ball took a full hour before things finally settled down to dancing (the twist was Out, the charleston In). But no one seemed to mind as the girls from 12 foreign lands and 13 American states put on their own beauty contest-each lass escorted by assigned service-academy cadets and personally chosen Ivy League types. Everybody's favorite foreign find was Scotland's bonnie Marney Jane Bulman, 19, and domestically...
...galosh has gone galumphing into oblivion, and in its place is the musketeer boot, the Robin Hood boot, the cossack boot, lined, unlined, fur-topped, made of fake leopard or silk faille or nylon mesh or even real leather. Office girls wear them to work at the slightest sign of inclement weather, carrying their shoes in a tote bag (the smarter ones keep a pair of shoes in their desk). For the evening, slippers are carried in jeweled reticules...
Unlike other American tycoons, Astor apparently never developed any social ambitions. His only real interest was the fur trade, and when that dwindled, so did Astor's energies. He correctly judged in the 1830s that the boom was over (in London he had encountered "hats of silk in place of beaver"), and he retired in ill health from the business. "All your wealth will do you no good in your grave," he wrote piously to a friend. And piously in 1848 he went to his grave...