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...27th Chelsea Arts Ball (the first since 1938) was a blockbuster-Britain's noisiest, rowdiest and most splendidly raucous big binge since the war. For the evening, austere Britons removed the pipes from their mouths and dressed themselves as anything, from Roman invaders to the Marx brothers. The ladies favored near-nudity, though a handful of sartorial reactionaries came in 18th Century court dress. One man, recently returned from Washington war chores, just wore a seersucker suit with a red sash and a blinding orange tie he had been given by U.S. Steel President Ben Fairless...
...Reader Roux must divide by two for the correct answer. Romains has written 26 volumes for publication in France. They have been consolidated into 13 volumes in the U.S. The 14th (Remains' 27th) is still to come...
...three weeks later, Osborne handed Betz one of her few beatings. The Betz Club romped up to Sweden, and played barelegged before 88-year-old tennis bug King Gustav. Then the other club members returned to the U.S., but Pauline headed for a Swiss resort (Gunten) to celebrate her 27th birthday with Millionheiress Barbara Hutton. They swam, jitterbugged and went mountain-climbing for ten days-Pauline's longest vacation from tennis in ten years...
...Molotov's conciliatory mood was short-lived. The deadline set by Byrnes for clearing up the agenda, June 28 (it happened to be the 27th anniversary of the Versailles Treaty and the 32nd anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination at Sarajevo), had arrived. Besides Trieste, other issues remained unsolved: free navigation on the Danube, Russia's insistence on Italian reparations, the economic clauses in the Balkan treaties and, last but not least, the "German question...
...American Legion, biggest, richest and most influential of U.S. veteran organizations, its 27th convention, which closed in Chicago last week, was no occasion for oldtime roughhouse play. Throughout a four-day session, the Legion did everything possible to sell itself-or give itself-to the new World War II veterans, male and female. The question was: would they have...