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...most contented man in the Capital. No less contented is his wife, daughter of one of Nashville's first families, who now can fulfill her social ambition to sit with him above the salt at Washington's official dinner parties. And "Joe" Byrns, from whose mouth a cigar is rarely missing, seldom buys White Owls or Portinas as he used, to, for the world is only too glad to present the Speaker of the House with fine cigars. For the whole U. S. and its representatives in Congress, gangling Joe Byrns has a warm place in his heart...
...naturally picked Barrie when she needed a stage name. She went to school in Switzerland and was having lunch in London's Savoy Grill with a friend when Alexander Korda saw her, offered her a screen test. Watching her shrewdly with his hat over his eyes and a cigar in his mouth, Korda tactfully taught her how to act. She played the part of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third wife. At Barbara Hutton's wedding in Paris she met Wool worth Donahue, rich Hutton cousin. Last summer they were reported engaged. She arrived...
...farm-learned virtues, of which the dearest is Hard Work. He has spent his millions freely in a long war against Rum, Tobacco and other worldly evils, has set up a $25,000,000 Kresge Foundation to further his moral and philanthropic ends.* Offered a drink or a cigar, Mr. Kresge says politely: "Hoping always to have my own views and opinions respected, I respect the opinions of others." Another Kresgeism: "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf of the use of alcoholic beverages, I wonder if I might not have discovered them in all these...
...Baroness de Rothschild invited him to play at a soiree. Instantly he was Society's pet, besieged by highborn ladies who begged him to give them lessons. Then, like a villain in a play, George Sand strode into his life, flaunting her male attire, puffing at a black cigar. According to Author Murdoch, that bestselling novelist was "an odd mixture of vulture and vampire." Once a lover was discarded, she used him cruelly for copy and the disguise was thin. In 1838 Chopin and Sand acknowledged their liaison by going together to the Island of Majorca where Chopin almost...
...squarely in front of Duke's $1,000,000 Gothic Chapel. The pedestal will be capped, next Commencement, with the Duke statue. Last month the Archive, Duke's literary magazine, placed the statue in its Hall of Infamy "because it is in extremely bad taste, because the cigar in his hand is the keynote to its vulgarity, because it will be an object of ridicule to all who see it ... because were Mr. Duke alive he would per-haps have the modesty to ask that it be placed elsewhere.* Recently 300 students begged the university to reconsider...