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High Finance. Dapper Manchester Boddy, 51, acquired the News in 1926 on what he calls a "borrowed shoestring." Boddy was general manager of the Los Angeles Times's book-publishing department, then he heard about the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News. Published by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., it was then (1926) the last word in newspaper daffiness (retouch artists used to put shirts on pictures of hairy-chested wrestlers to meet the Vanderbilt standards of wholesomeness). The News was losing $30,000 a month, ultimately landed in bankruptcy court...
...secret told, Cordell Hull cared little about Vichyfrance reaction, remained stonily indifferent when the Laval Government told tall, dapper S. Pinkney Tuck, to whom the development was no surprise, that it was breaking relations with...
...model will be a delicate Gallic affair to fit a cinesatire on Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard. Wendell Willkie, back home in Rushville (see p. 20), eagerly looked forward to his first haircut since Cairo, 6,500 miles, six weeks back. From Vichy came an eye-catching picture of dapper Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affaires, his smart new wife, Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, her hat -a full-fashioned, high-riding model reminiscent of a quilted, candy-stuffed, $5 valentine-the first Paris style news in months...
Then the chant changed to: "We want Stokowski!" The dapper conductor tripped across the stage. Shouted the tank corps: "He needs a haircut...
Monday mornings, the 2,000,000-odd readers of Joe Patterson's New York Daily News start the week with a good slug of anti-New Dealism called Capitol Stuff. Its author is the News's sardonic, dapper, Roosevelt-baiting Washington correspondent John O'Donnell. Last week Ribber O'Donnell was in fine choleric fettle...