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...Whenever two or three men are banded together they can, if they will just drop a note to the White House, be virtually assured of a formal chit from the President of the U. S. expounding his sympathy with their aspirations, his admiration for men of their calling, perhaps his appreciation of the civic virtues of their creed, race, or particular forbears. Last week the members of the New York Board of Trade settled back in their chairs at luncheon to hear a chit written by the President specifically to be read to them. It had come in answer...
...Betsey Barton, who edits a monthly page called "Cloud Club," is the pretty, 16-year-old daughter of gladsome Adman Bruce Barton. Last summer an automobile accident bedded Daughter Betsey in her Manhattan home with a broken back. Propped up in bed with pillows, spunky Editor Barton gathers chit-chat from correspondents, types it out with her father's breeziness, more flippancy. Well enough last week to be wheeled out to a cinema, she said: "I want to try my darnedest to get more people, especially young women, interested in aviation. ... It is infinitely safer traveling than by automobile...
...long time Wall Street has buzzed with chit-chat about a new Angas pamphlet. Manhattan brokers urgently cabled for summaries the moment it was off the press. Financial pundits found long paragraphs in the scraps that drifted across the Atlantic. Last week The Coming American Boom was published in the U. S. by Simon & Schuster...
...about her gay uncle last year when she worked as receptionist in the London hairdressing establishment which the second Duchess of Westminster started after her divorce. What caused the Duke of Westminster's libel suit last week were a few paragraphs which Lady Sibell printed in her regular chit-chat column in Oxford and Cambridge Magazine last month...
...keep his private pilot's license active. His wife, who can also fly, and their eight-year-old son Eugene Jr. often accompany him. Flying is only one accomplishment of attractive Mrs. Vidal. She has played bits on stage and screen, once wrote Washington chit-chat for Hearst's Universal Service. The Vidals live with Senator & Mrs. Gore in the Gores' spacious house near Washington's Rock Creek Park...