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Sally De Marco, half of high society's classiest dance team, unveiled a novel taffeta-&-tulle number she declared she had run up herself, explained candidly to the press, "I just kept adding stuff to the back" (see cut). She habitually spent "at least $50,000" a year on her clothes, said she. "But I don't mind, really," she hurried on, making everything clear. "Dancing in a new dress is . . . completely exhilarating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...Hope was back from a royal command performance in London with the classiest imaginable keepsake for his actor's-scrapbook: a nice picture of Hope hobnobbing with fascinated royal chums around a book of Hollywood autographs, including Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Duke & Duchess of Windsor & their clothes went dancing in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, achieved the classiest photograph of their visit so far-he in white tie & tails and a boyish grin, she in a rustly formal with a sort of dorsal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Movers & Shakers | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

There were 17,000 punters at Winnipeg's Polo Park one afternoon last week. But when the bugle called six of Canada's classiest three-year-olds to the post for the 13th running of the Canadian Derby, there was nobody at the pari-mutuel windows. Reason: touted Ten to Ace, shipped west from Toronto, was so overwhelmingly favored that track officials had declared the race a "no-betting" affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ace Trumped | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Classiest contested-will case in a vestryman's age was fought in a White Plains, N.Y. court between the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, businesslike, 53-year-old rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest, and relatives of the late, 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Patton, who last year left the minister 30% of her $1,300,000. The relatives charged that Dr. Darlington had made love to the widow for ten years to get the money; Dr. Darlington's attorneys described the relationship as pure mother-&-son. Twenty-eight affectionate letters were introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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