Word: garlanding
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...members of the smart set slumming there one night. No sooner did Cholly break the news in his gossip column than the Peppermint Lounge became an instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose, and Tennessee Williams, and William Inge. The word shot quickly over the mink-line to the Stork's Cub Room, El Morocco and the Harwyn Club. Inside of just a few weeks, virtually everybody who is anybody in café society...
...Rose Garland. The popularity of the rosary is growing in the modern world, along with increased devotion to the Virgin Mary. The use of prayer beads recedes into the earliest years of Christianity. In the 4th century, Paul the Hermit tallied his 300 prayers a day by collecting 300 pebbles and discarding them one at a time. In the 11th century, Countess Godiva of Coventry, the celebrated ecdysiast, bequeathed to a certain statue of the Virgin Mary "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that by fingering them one after another she might...
...year precedent to anoint a coiffeur. The man of the hour at the solemn presentation ceremonies in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mr. Kenneth (surname back home in Syracuse, N.Y.: Battelle), who was already famed as clippers and comb expert for Marilyn Monroe, Tina Onassis and Judy Garland, but who achieved the bouffant ("I like to call it uncontrived fullness") summit with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
Nonetheless. Loelia. Duchess of Westminster, did. So did Judy Garland. Richard Rodgers. Howard Lindsay, Russell Grouse. Alfred Lunt. Lynn Fontanne. and so on down the gold-plated guest list at the out-of-town premiere last week of Noel Coward's new musical comedy, Sail Away. The show will open in Manhattan Oct. 3, but first Coward's story, set on a Mediterranean cruise ship, will probably undergo a considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent...
...plan into effect, ignored the fact that the First District (Phoenix) has four times the population of the eight northern and eastern counties that comprise the new District Two. Maine, down from three Republican seats to two, simply split the state, left Incumbents Stanley Tupper and Peter A. Garland the problem of facing one another in the state's First District...