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...Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York's fast social life, she regularly did the rounds of raucous nightclubs and the more discreet Park Avenue and Long Island parties...
Eldest U.S. elder statesman, Bernard Baruch, 83, who was first tapped for White House advice (by President Wilson) when Dwight Eisenhower was a first lieutenant, dropped in at the presidential mansion for lunch and came out properly discreet. A reporter, trying a circuitous approach, asked Financier Baruch about the state of the economy. Replied he quickly: "I think I'll keep quiet about that." Then, seeing that such silence might be interpreted as a prophecy of doom, he hastily covered himself: "That doesn't mean I think it's bad." Striding on, Baruch had another afterthought. Pausing...
What goes on behind those walls, naturally, is no outsider's business, and the great majority of the foreign colonists-retired businessmen, artists and writers, well-heeled or well-married expatriates-are thoroughly respectable, thoroughly discreet, or sometimes both. But gossip is rampant, and everyone knows that Cuernavaca has a yeasty leavening of the oddities and eccentrics who also find their way to Capri, the CÓte d'Azur and other lotus-eaters' resorts of the world. If tales are sometimes .whispered of gay fiestas involving such narcotics as alcohol, opium and intellectual Communism, of ambisextrous...
...crossword-puzzle editor of Britain's Country Life magazine casually opened the entries in weekly contest No. 1266. The name signed beneath the first correct solution he came across was H.R.H. Princess Margaret, Clarence House, St. James's, London. After a discreet telephone call proved that this was no hoax, Country Life prepared to send Crossworder Margaret the prize: her choice of $8.82 worth of sporting books...
Besides the obvious advantages expected from the merger (better care of patients, better facilities for training doctors and nurses), there were three which New Haven's medical top brass was too discreet to mention: 1) the center should attract wealthy patients who now go to Boston or Manhattan for major operations or treatments, 2) it will be able to treat patients with rare ailments, which medical students otherwise would never see, and 3) it should break down some of the town-v.-gown feeling which has resulted in Yale doctors' sending their patients to one unit...