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Macdonald-Wright, brother of Mystery Writer S. S. Van Dine (real name: Willard Huntington Wright), grew up in a well-off hotel-managing family. His father treated him to painting lessons at five. At 15 young Stan rebelliously went to sea on a windjammer, got so seasick that he was put off at Hawaii. Private detectives sent by his father brought him back home. His family solved his wanderlust by sending him off at 16 to France to study...
...Sophie Lenefsky, is an accomplished chicken plucker who has feathered her nest over the years by hard work in a chicken market. After World War II, she presented Sol and his sister with $13,000 that she had saved, to buy the restaurant. On the night Yolaine came to dine there, she was introduced to Sol. Two months later when he went to visit her in Miami, Sol said, Yolaine proposed marriage. He accepted...
...mention the Kindness of the French Ladies to me. I must explain that matter. This is the civilest Nation upon Earth ... If 'tis understood that you like Mutton, dine where you will you find Mutton. Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embrac'd, that is to have their Necks kiss'd. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks, it is not the Mode here: the first is reckon'd rude, and the other...
Members of Lowell House will dine in a quieter atmosphere when they return from Christmas vacation. Master Elliott Perkins announced yesterday that soundproof tiles will be installed on the arched ceiling during the absence of the students...
...Saturday night on Long Island, and Mrs. George Fisher Baker was entertaining. The Duchess of Windsor was the guest of honor, and Mrs. Baker had invited 58 guests-the clabbered creme of New York society-to dine with the duchess and join in the quickening whirl of a new social season. Among Mrs. Baker's glittering guests none were more striking than young William Woodward Jr., 35, the millionaire sportsman, and his wife...