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...networks, plus BBC, CBC, and some 30 individual U.S. radio stations, had reserved space in the Veterans' Memorial Building for daily, on-the-spot reports of the public sessions. There were also elaborate plots to get inside the smoke-filled committee rooms - and the extra-special plans grew fancier as the opening day approached. Samples...
...Rumba Fancier. Among the magazine's famed editors have been Waldemar Kaempffert (now science editor of the New York Times); and the late, brilliant Edward E. Free. But Scientific American has been dominated by the family which has owned and published it through almost its entire career, the Manhattan Munns, one of Ward McAllister's original "400." Present editor and publisher (third in the line) is Orson Desaix Munn, 61, a patent lawyer, crack bird hunter and fisherman, rumba fancier, familiar figure in Manhattan café society. He passes on everything that goes into the magazine...
Samuel Untermyer, millionaire lawyer, politico, orchid fancier, who died in 1940, was revealed in an executor's account to have set up a $30,000-a-year trust fund for his "very dear friend," Mrs. Marguerite Herczeg, widow of a Hungarian nobleman. Mrs. Herczeg was "astonished to learn the secret...
Nobody was lovelier than blonde, Garboesque Mme. Hägglöf, graceful bride of the Swedish Charge. Nobody was fancier than the Norwegian Ambassador wearing every shape, cast, color and size of medal, decoration and ribbon. The new Ethiopian Minister, small and black, shone in his gold-braided costume. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr walked like a new Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar...
...fancying fans scream their favorites' numbers and colors. Changing odds are flashed instantly. Racing cards are free, food and drink is reasonable and good, as food now goes in Britain. The fancier tracks have clubs where a $10 membership buys such amenities as table service, private totalizator windows, attendants to place bets and pick up winnings...