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PHOTOCOPIED October 1, 2002; NASM PRESERVATION COPY

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COCKTAIL CHIT CHAT Mattiwilda Dobbs doesn't believe in dieting. She eats potatoes--boiled, fried, or baked--at every meal, and defends her appetite with: "I think opera singers should be bigger than other people." Her husband, Luis Rodriques, recuperating from illness in a London hospital, is resting in his native sunny Spain, while the Atlanta diva pursues her career on the Continent . 
. . New York's Sugar Ray and Edna Mae Robinson are shopping for a governess who can drive Baby Ray to the exclusive Walden School and coach him in French . . . C. Jerry Yates, prominent barrister of Durham, N. C., is making plans for his daughter, Isabel, to take over his lucrative practice when she finishes Boston University Law School.
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Styled In Africa: Fashion designer Rosalyn Paige models an original, African-inspired costume as she represents Africa in the "Round the World Fashion Fantasy" in New York. Miss Paige's dress, of an Italian-made African print, is an adaptation of ceremonial robes worn in her native Rhodesia.

[[image: black and white photo of young black woman, seated, looking into camera, wearing highly patterned off-the-shoulder dress with a fitted bodice and full skirt, the fabric draped over her head. She wears further decorations in her hair, and a beaded necklace.]]

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