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I'm still working on the Walter Winchell vs. Ed Sullivan thing from a few pages back. I couldn't answer it so I left it alone, but it's been bugging me ever since. Walter Winchell would be a more fascinating dinner companion, but I'd be sick with fear for weeks going over the conversation & trying to remember what I had said that he could use against me. Sullivan would be sweeter but perhaps a bit tiresome after twenty minutes.

Schiaparelli or Vionnet? (One for the ladies.)
 
I'm still working on the Walter Winchell vs. Ed Sullivan thing from a few pages back. I couldn't answer it so I left it alone, but it's been bugging me ever since. Walter Winchell would be a more fascinating dinner companion, but I'd be sick with fear for weeks going over the conversation & trying to remember what I had said that he could use against me. Sullivan would be sweeter but perhaps a bit tiresome after twenty minutes.

Schiaparelli or Vionnet? (One for the ladies.)

Schiaparelli made men's ties too you know. :p
 

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I'm still working on the Walter Winchell vs. Ed Sullivan thing from a few pages back. I couldn't answer it so I left it alone, but it's been bugging me ever since. Walter Winchell would be a more fascinating dinner companion, but I'd be sick with fear for weeks going over the conversation & trying to remember what I had said that he could use against me. Sullivan would be sweeter but perhaps a bit tiresome after twenty minutes.

I'm actually kind of a Winchell fan myself. He got frustrated and out-of-touch in the postwar era, and took some stupid stands as a result, but in his prime, the thirties and early forties, he was on the noble side of many issues -- and was one of the cleverest newspaper writers who ever lived besides. It's not for nothing that Philip Roth made him a heroic figure in "The Plot Against America." Sullivan, on the other hand, was a mook, and deep down even he knew it. He didn't even write well.

Schiaparelli or Vionnet? (One for the ladies.)

Vionnet, definitely. I get the same feeling from Schiaparelli that I do from Dali: they were putting everyone on, knowing that nobody wanted to be the one to stand up and say "OH COME OFF IT."

Sears and Roebuck or Monkey Ward's?
 
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Parker or Waterman fountain pens?

Parker :p:D

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Hostess (the Late Lamented) or Little Debbie?
 

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