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Soon everybody was drinking the "intimatist cocktail"-a gin base with an equal dash of curaçao and of an apéritif. Then Sébille rose and spoke. He spoke of his philosophy and the manner in which life should be lived and rosebuds gathered. The intimatists wrapped themselves in bed sheets to resemble Roman togas. From then until well past dawn, intimatism became general...
Hedda's Whoppers. It has been suggested that, for all Hedda's slash & dash, her wild but indisputable charm and her whizzing success at her job, the head beneath the hats is something of an air pocket. In her very first column, she perpetrated a lulu to the effect that Greta Garbo, who was soon, she said, to marry Leopold Stokowski, had undergone inspection by Stokowski's patrician Philadelphia relatives. Stokowski has no patrician Philadelphia relatives. A rudimentary instinct for checking sources would have spared Hedda that blooper...
Trouble for the Army. The Russian-printed marks were distinguishable by a dash in front of the serial number. The Army took no note of it. It cashed in unlimited quantities of invasion marks till November 1945 when it limited the amount convertible to dollars to the amount of the soldiers' pay. In September 1946 it stopped converting marks entirely. By then the Army had on hand $250 million in invasion marks more than it had issued. What was worse, it had no appropriations to cover what it had put out. As far as the U.S. now knows...
...Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven guineas. Blonde Princess Ali Khan, the Aga Khan's daughter-in-law, did better at a reported 15 guineas. Randolph Churchill, who could not stay late because he had to dash off to a regimental dinner, bought up several girls and later disposed of them at a profit-which, of course, went to charity too. One of his transactions involved 27-year-old Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington (née Kennedy, of Boston...
...worth $75,000 to any big-league baseball club. Two weeks ago, after finishing a baseball game against Navy, Davis hurried across the campus to help out Army's track team (he broke the 220-yd. Army and meet record in 20.9 seconds, won the 100-yd. dash...