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Filing-Cabinet Frenchies. After passage of the new gaming act. Crockford's was bought by an Old Harrovian entrepreneur, blond, beefy Tim Holland. 35, who brags of learning bridge when he was nine. He transformed the club's venerable second floor with $80,000 worth of silk damask wall coverings and 18th century candelabra, imported eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino...
...shipment of South American zoological specimens. Not until last month did Harvard zoologists realize that laetas had made the museum their U.S. beach head. Delighted students discovered that the basement was alive with venomous spiders, many of them pregnant females sitting by their stringy webs of coarse white silk. By reasonable estimate, at least 1,000 laetas were hiding under boards or in dark corners. They had been feeding on silverfish and other furtive basement insects. Lack of local enemies had probably encouraged the spider population explosion...
...longtime fascination with Buddhism by making a ten-day contemplative retreat at the home of U Nu, himself a Buddhist monk. Meantime, livening up the diplomatic garden parties, Ben-Gurion wowed his hosts by showing up attired like a potbellied pixy in Burma's traditional gaungbaung headgear and silk sarong. Chortled the Israeli leader: "Now I know what the Scots wear under their kilts...
Although her own life revolved around the stage and music, Miss Sayre found time to associate with a somewhat bizarre though terribly shoe group. One of her close friends "went to Dylan Thomas' funeral in tight black silk, veiled, and jet earringed, weeping because she never met him." Another grew trees in her room. (A Harvard acquaintance built a fine rampant peacock out of tinker toys as a woman-substitute.) She and her friends "detested" normal girls who wore cardigan sweaters and could discuss sex calmly...
...film version of the book-Ross Hunter's full-color, widescreen. $2,500,000 overproduction in which the bathrooms look like the lobby of the Beverly Hilton-the fallen woman falls, not into the pit of shame, but into the lap of luxury. She still suffers, but on silk...