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Repeating a service performed during the last war, Phillips Brooks House announced last night that it was organizing groups to entertain disabled and convalescing sailors in the Chelsen Naval Hospital...
...animal Homosapiens, it is essential that we do so, any feeling of hate for these relatively defenseless creatures is totally absent from most, and I sincerely hope from all, of us. Rather, as perfectly obvious from shop talk in any group involving as many as two biologists, we entertain rather marked affection and often great respect for the animals it is necessary for us to destroy...
...past master of the soft shoe routine, packed the Hasty Pudding Club last night in a show for the Naval Training School. There was standing room only in the auditorium as 400 Navy men and their guests watched Bill take time off from his stint at the Mayfair to entertain with his inimitable tapping...
Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...
...apartment in which he died was the perfect complement to his publishing business and an index to the variety of his taste. There he entertained the same people for whom he published Vogue. There to his elaborate dinners, dances, cocktail parties, came socialites, Hollywoodites, Broadwayites, statesmen, royalty. The star of a Broadway opening was as thrilled by an after-theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party...