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...proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success. At another party, given at the Monkey Club, an exclusive shelter and society finishing school for young ladies, a silver fountain gushed red wine all evening. "We wanted to have something original," explained the father of Debutante Christine Thorowgood. "Besides it's good wine...
...reactionary waste paper such as TIME" and American swing, a "contemporary version of St. Vitus' dance ..." Said he, speaking of the work of Writers John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, André Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending a Communist-front cultural conference in Manhattan, he was startled to find himself questioned about Soviet writers. Said he: "They all exist; they are in this world. Pasternak is my neighbor . . . I don't know about Babel, and about Kirshon...
...more breathing space than the cathedral has ever had before, within a setting of modern business buildings. Main features: i) a paved forecourt, 100 yards wide, before St. Paul's west portal; 2) realigned streets, to provide a sweeping, unbroken expanse of lawn (and possibly a fountain) in place of St. Paul's present traffic-cluttered southeast churchyard; 3) a plan for varying the heights of surrounding buildings, among them a 23-story office building farther down Ludgate Hill, while keeping the distant view of the dome unobstructed; 4) redesign of the close-in area into a series...
Penmanship. In Youngstown, Ohio, awaiting trial on two counts of forgery, Lorene Montgomery gave city detectives a demonstration of her craft, wrote two clearly legible signatures at once while holding one fountain pen in her mouth, another in the crook...
...none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club fell on hard times. The Army Air Forces used it for a training...