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Dumpling, 58-year-old Elsa Maxwell, professional party-thrower and No. 1 U.S. hedonist, will "do anything for a laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: EIGHTH WONDER SYNDICATED | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...fabulous Elsa signed a five-year contract to write a six-day-a-week syndicated column, Elsa Maxwell's Particles. Her reason: a laughter shortage in national defense. "It is a matter of morale," she says, "to be as happy as you can through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: EIGHTH WONDER SYNDICATED | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Incidental, according to Elsa, who scorns all "stodgy security," is the fact that her column will pay well. It starts in 20 papers with a circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: EIGHTH WONDER SYNDICATED | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...should visit Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. but rotund Elsa Maxwell, professional party-liner for café society. Last week, interviewed by the New York World-Telegram, Miss Maxwell had some unexpectedly shrewd observations to make about the U.S. Army's morale. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Girls for Our Boys | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...with Paris, where she had hurt her ankle in the blackout and food was frightfully dear, Dressmaker Elsa Schiaparelli arrived by Clipper in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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