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...wife) of onetime Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell. For the party last week at her Grosse Point, Mich, estate, Mrs. Dillman brought Emile Petti's orchestra by plane from Manhattan, tied up the family yacht at the edge of the lawn (which drops into Lake St. Clair), served breakfast on solid gold plates, summoned photographers from all Detroit papers for a mid-afternoon snap-session. Same day dark-eyed Christine was named "Debutante of Today" by the national Debutante Register...
GOSSIP: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WALTER WINCHELL-St. Clair McKelway-Viking...
...Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave in to its distinguished pest. Result: Michigan went up from 22nd to eighth place among the States, became "the biggest State east of the Mississippi River...
Though little, and only 13 years old-and unable to afford a gymnasium of its own-Brooklyn's Long Island University has for several years had tip-top basketball teams. Coached by Accounting Teacher Clair Bee, a nervous little 150-pounder who never was any great shakes as an athlete but is a generalissimo at working out strategies on a wooden board, Brooklyn's Blackbirds have chalked up 149 victories in 159 games...
...they were bagged just three years ago almost to a day, a new flock of Blackbirds, with a winning streak of 42, will meet Southern California, year in & year out one of the most formidable basketball teams in the country. If they can outshoot Sam Barry's Trojans, Clair Bee's boys will earn their reputation as a college basketball team second to none...