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...Belgians were just as intime chez Maxim. To many another princely sprig, millionaire, archduke and demimondaine of the fey '90s, Maxim's in Paris' rue Royale was the most elegant bistro in Europe, the gaudiest symbol of the mauve decadence. Its décor was the most glittery, its women the most ravishing, its top-drawer scandals the most toothsome. No Manhattan nightclub captain was ever so suave or tactful as Maxim's famed, monocled Chasseur Gérard, who, with a handy grasp of the Almanach de Gotha unsurpassed by any dowager in Europe, discreetly...
Gloria Swanson, svelte survivor of the silent screen and five marriages, survived a New York City taxicab crash that bowled one of the cabs over. Injuries to Siren Swanson: an egg on the brow, a skewgee décor...
Izvestia's slight, greying, top war cor respondent Ilya Ehrenburg, Red Star's mustached young (30) novelist Konstantin (Days & Nights) Simonov, and Pravda's chunky General Mikhail Galaktionov had arrived the afternoon before, wilted and bleary-eyed from their trip. Now, after a good night's sleep at their Embassy, they were ready for questions...
...Secretary Frank Knox. Since that day, when he unsmilingly took over one of the biggest jobs in Washington, he has occupied the Secretary's office, which his wife endowed with ship's lamps, ship's bells, crossed naval swords and a generally reposeful colonial décor...
...protocol was no more depressing than the furnishings. The meeting room itself with its round table was not so bad, but the twin angels on the backs of each of the Big Three's gilt chairs were hard to bear. So was the décor of Truman's living quarters. Items: liver-colored wallpaper in the living room; still lifes in the dining room-a very dead rabbit, a half cantaloupe and a very red lobster...