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...only one which preceded a bridge match which compares to an ordinary evening at cards as Waterloo compares to a pillow fight. Mrs. Culbertson dropped her glasses, had them stepped on and finally, with the aid of her husband, found another pair in her lingerie drawer. Editor Frank Crownin-shield of Vanity Fair made a radio speech calling attention to Mrs. Culbertson's corsage of orchids. Author Ring Lardner, retained with upwards of 100 less celebrated newshawks and bridge addicts to report the affair, said: "The people of New York and vicinity have not been in such a fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...shallow water with its tail in the air, has two large bony plates in its mouth instead of teeth, with which it hungrily crushes hardshell crabs.* Potent and numerous are Nassau's habitues. They include: Publisher Nelson Doubleday, Publisher Conde Nast and his editor of Vanity Fair, Frank Crownin-shield. Bankers Thomas W. Lamont and Seward Prosser, Lady Diana Manners. Knowlton L. Ames Jr. of Chicago is not only a visitor but co-owner of the quaint Nassau Guardian, one of the world's few newspapers to be composed on inverted tombstones from old graveyards. Publisher Ames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Anxious that the layout and typography of Vanity Fair should be as neoteric as the rest of the magazine, Editor Crownin-shield engaged the services of one Mehemed Fehmy Agha, Russo-Turkish designer (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Capital v. Vanity | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cricket. | 6/6/1890 | See Source »

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