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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Your belittling allusion to small towns on Harry's recent jousting tour as "whistle stops" and "tank towns" sort of roused my risibilities. Most people who live in small towns do so from choice...
Americans who have been to Moscow in the past decade think of the Aragvi as a sort of Soviet Stork Club. It has a splendid entrance on Soviet Square, a good Georgian orchestra which plays on a balcony, and a Caucasian dancer in traditional warrior uniform. In the big main hall there is an open space for patrons to dance; around the sides are private dining rooms. The best private room is on the upper level, facing the orchestra. (In this room have wined & dined a long list of distinguished and relaxing Amerikantsy running from Harry Hopkins to Wendell Willkie...
When her hotel presented a $225.20 bill and refused to accept her check, onetime bestselling Novelist Ursula (ExWife) Parrott, 48, spent 30 hours in the Sussex County (Delaware) jail with her French poodle, Coco. "This sort of publicity is bad for a writer," complained Author Parrott. "A writer isn't like an actress, you know...
...answer to a blast at the Met signed by 28 advanced abstractionists a fortnight ago (TIME, June 5). The protesting avant-garde artists had felt sure hat the Met's jumbo, jury-selected show contemporary U.S. art scheduled for December would exclude most abstract tainting of the sort they favored. If Artists Equity agreed with that supposition, t didn't seem to care. The organization numbers 1,600 members-mostly middle-if-the-road painters. No less than 18 of them, as it happens, will serve on the seven juries picked...
...country. After a shave by Sam ("The Barber") Silver, who comes out from the studio, Zanuck drives his green Cadillac ten miles to the lot, attacks production schedules, mail, memos and telegrams until 1 p.m. Then he takes a sawed-off polo mallet, which he uses as a sort of swagger stick, trots over to the executive dining room, and starts monopolizing the conversation before he has sat down...