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...this a ripple of laughter ran around the Senate chamber, was duly reported in the Congressional Record. Next day when New Mexico's wealthy dapper Bronson Cutting, protagonist for increased pensions, spotted the tell-tale "(Laughter)" in the Record, he stormed into the Senate chamber, raised his lisping voice in anger...
...Scholarly musicians are looking forward to a Duke Ellington review which is scheduled for New York next season. Such lofty recognition has injected no jarring, self-conscious note into Ellington's performances. Ellington and his players cling to the Negro dialect. Hot obligates are still "riffs" to them. Dapper Sonny Greer, probably the world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would...
...Dapper, florid Ed Hill, whose wife and newspaper cronies call him "Bill." is distinctly of the Frank Ward O'Malley school of news reporting. Born 48 years ago in Aurora, Ind., he attended University of Indiana where his English professor would emphasize examples of journalism by pointing to the New York Sun. Hill determined to get a job on the Sun and, after pestering the city editor for weeks he finally did get a "temporary"' assignment, which lasted 22 years...
...continuously, was his own chief counsel, courtly, white-crowned John William Davis, onetime Democratic nominee for President. Ranged about the room were various of the 20 Morgan partners, Thomas W. Lamont, George Whitney, S. Parker Gilbert, many another. And against the wall, guarding the trunkful of records, stood dapper junior members of the House of Morgan...
...lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst's American and Journal, respectively. The Baron, 30, is a nephew of famed "White Russian" General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel. Dapper, bubbling "Cholly Knickerbocker" owns the copyright to his nom de plume, a valuable asset. His breezy column is famed for "plugging" favorites. Philadelphia society, according to Joseph Hergesheimer who likes parties and lives near there, is as dull as what the society editors write about it. Oldest and most reliable...