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Cole Porter, composer of more than 300 songs, who died on Friday, was one of the most debonair playboys in the Western World. Cole Porter dines with actress Jane Wyman in New York. In the roaring twenties he kept a villa in Bavaria, a palazzo in Venice, a flat in London, a house in Paris and threw the most fabulous parties in Europe. In Venice he once hired an entire ballet company to dance again a background ***** are just as elegant and precise and the food beautifully served, and Cole always wears his usual boutonniere, a white carnation. "No matter what happens this sense of beauty is something that Cole Porter will never lose". October 20, 1953.