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...charm, safe behind a barrier of chicken wire. For $1 anyone could go in, sit behind a drawing board for ten minutes and try or pretend to sketch her. Elsewhere in the Drake that evening were peep shows, slot machines, bars, roulette tables, smart shops, fortune telling booths, a gangplank and reproduction of one side of the lie de France. Milling around in costumes that tried earnestly to look bohemian were 2,500 Chicago socialites and celebrities. Fresh from welcoming Governor Roosevelt to town, Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak arrived in an orange beret, stayed late...
...White Star Liner Britannic put in at Boston last week. Down the gangplank walked a handsome, fox-bearded gentleman with a black slouch hat and the mysterious manner of the Chief Conspirator in an Italian opera. His name, according to the passenger list, was PROFESSOR CLARENCE SKINNER. Behind the bush of Professor Skinner newshawks instantly recognized the features of Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Governor Norman promptly boarded the Bar Harbor express to visit "Larchsea," summer home of his friend Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. Governor Norman's visits...
Fortnight ago Alice Roosevelt Longworth cut her way through floral strands stretched across the gangplank, struck her head against something, had her hat knocked off. Smilingly jamming hat on head she marched forward, officially opened the ship to the public. Booked to capacity for her maiden voyage this week. the Manhattan was given in charge of U. S. Lines' hero-captain, George Fried...
...Marseilles last week a large inquisitive fishwife elbowed her way toward the gangplank of the S. S. Rajpntana to see what the gawking crowd was staring at. Having reached a point of vantage she suddenly recoiled in disgust...
Connolly for Mason. A dapper little man with a lot of luggage walked across the gangplank of the Leviathan, Europe-bound. With the same proud little steps he had left the Hearst fold five days before. After the resignations of Col. William Franklin Knox from Hearst-papers' general managership and Editor Ray Long from Cosmopolitan Magazine (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.), Frank Earl Mason was the third major executive to leave the Hearst banner in eight months...