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...moment the house was finished it became the social capital of Chicago. About it and Bertha Honore Palmer, firmly enthroned in her own Italian hall, sprang up a vast folklore. One famed Chicago social organization once had the temerity to entertain simultaneously with Mrs. Palmer but only a society editor appeared. Bertha Palmer maintained winter palaces in London and Paris but they served chiefly as hunting preserves where she caught European royalty and nobility for her Chicago castle. Chicago was good to Mrs. Palmer. It was always properly dazzled by her social display. Her only serious setback occurred...
...cultivates friends assiduously, is said to keep a card index file of every person he meets. In his luxurious Manhattan apartment he collects elephants of ivory, ebony, stone and metal, owns 2,200. He once had two live elephants carried to the roof of the old Waldorf-Astoria to entertain his guests...
...taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their old contract calling for a cut in the profits, took instead a new one providing for $15,000 each for their services in an "administrative and advisory" capacity, living expenses including nine rooms each and the right to entertain "a reasonable number of guests...
...gowns, when they agreed to admit their younger fellows to the fold. This plan is noteworthy in that it disposes of an embarrassing situation to the satisfaction of both parties. Under the new plan, whereby only Seniors and their guests may have refreshments, the Committee is enabled to entertain the undergraduates without additional expense...
...Santa Barbara bean monde. He becomes betrothed to an alluring blonde (Helen Vinson), learns enough polo to join a local team, buys a $600,000 share of her father's brokerage business, secures an immense mansion. complete with servants and secretary (Mary Astor) in which to entertain her friends. The members of the Cass family are congratulating themselves on having swindled a foolish parvenu when the admirer whom Polly Cass really likes shows them a copy of TIME, containing a picture of Bugs Ahearn and a story of his background under Crime. This document, a travesty on TIME, convinces...