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...Park Avenue drawing rooms and 52nd Street nightclubs he cut an exquisite figure. Always heavily perfumed, he was in the habit of remarking complacently: "I smell to heaven." He carried his own special brand of tea in a silver snuffbox to drink in nightclubs. He wore evening scarves by Schiaparelli, delighted in yanking up his pants leg and displaying his solid-gold garter clasps, studded with his four initials. He took up golf once but dropped it immediately, after finding himself in a locker room with a crowd of muscular, boisterous players. "It was too goddamn manly," he said...
...breaking up, as well. But the deal is off, and now Sabby Lewis's band will make a triumphant return to Boston. Lewis was at the Savoy in the fall, you may remember, before going into Kelly's Stable, right in the midst of the musical heat of West 52nd Street in New York. This band pays much more attention to its original arrangements than Newton, but its soloists are hardly as interesting...
...best weekly jobs of radio journalism rounded out its first year this Tuesday when Report to the Nation (Columbia network at 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) took its listeners aloft in a Flying Fortress. The 52nd Report, like most that had gone before, combined a cool flow of information with the exciting immediacies of what it meant to human beings-in this case to airmen and ground crews. In authenticity and taste, Report to the Nation has established itself as the nearest thing in radio to a good documentary movie...
...Still far in the lead as long-term kudos champion is Herbert Hoover, who last fortnight got his 52nd honorary degree (LL.D.) from Haverford (Friends) College...
Paul Revere adulated Adolf Hitler every night except Saturdays (DXP and DJB -11:30 E.D.S.T.), but so dully that a more fitting name for him might have been Lord Ho-Hum. Last week, celebrating his 52nd birthday ("the exact age of Hitler, the most successful man in the world"), he revealed himself as Chicago-born Douglas Chandler...