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...with utter amazement that I read about the smoking of a big, black cigar at the opera by Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton. Mrs. Throckmorton is my sister. Mrs. Throckmorton and I have been going to the opera since we were little girls of eight and nine, when our father, the musical critic, Algernon St. John Brenon, took us to hear Parsifal...
...view of our bringing up, our large and conservative (at times) family were astonished to learn that Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton had become a smoker of big, black cigars at the opera, particularly in view of the fact that for some months-past she has been in Bermuda, where she still is, with her husband, the scenic designer, who is designing the first legitimate theater on the island. Throck may be burning the midnight oil and smoking big, black cigars, but Juliet, never...
...cigar while she sipped a drink. Its picture of her was hastily identified as "A Mrs. Throckmorton (she's not in the Blue Book, by the way)." A day later it told more about her: she was not just any old Mrs. Throckmorton, but the Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton of Cape Cod and the nightclubs, who was "reliably reported to carry $4,000 in her handbag at all times-plus a gat in good working order. She . . . once appeared in a nightclub in a chenille bedspread...
...ways of tightening up on deferred "borderline cases," many an artful dodger was busy. The FBI was investigating a nationwide deferment mill that promised 1-A-men that it would shove them into Government jobs before the Army nabbed them. In Lafayette, Ind. a 25-year-old named Chester Cleon Hill looked like the dodger-of-the-year. A grand jury indicted him for taking so many benzedrine sulfate tablets before his Army physical examination that he trembled his way into deferment...
...Cleon B. White of the National Broadcasting Company acted as Master of Ceremonies. The Freshman committee consisted of: Richard R. Flood, chairman; Elliott Bacon, John C. Bowen, Charles Burwell, George Earle, William C. Flynn, H. Rushton Harwood, Donald McDonald, Hugh McNeil, Robert W. Sarnoff, and Clifford W. Wilson...