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Nelson Rockefeller, whose father always told him to watch his dollars & cents, got a carefree feeling during the Mexico City Conference. Handed a 7,000 peso ($1,449) check for a diplomatic party he threw at Giro's, the Assistant Secretary of State,cracked: "Who do you think I am, Rockefeller...
...Miami Beach Lou Walter's Latin Quarter, and Giro's, a dazzling new nightspot, have become the places-one-must-be-seen-in. The exclusive, million-dollar Surf Club, closed last year, is open again, has 100 new members. The snooty, conservative Bath Club is having a terrific year, reminiscent of the plushest days...
...first marriage to Ruth Chatterton ended in an amiable divorce and Brent's best friend is Ralph Forbes, another Chatterton ex-husband. His second marriage, to one Constance Worth in Mexico, ended in an unamiable divorce. This year Ann Sheridan persuaded him to make his first visit to Giro's, got him to promise to take her to his first premiere. When Brent discovered the premiere was on the night of his weekly navigation class (he recently bought a new 85-ft. yawl), he let the Oomph Girl down...
...payroll, on the way. During the past fortnight Paramount carved off about 50 of its excess employes, while 20th Century-Fox was reported to have fired from 100 to 200 persons. Bullock's-Wilshire shop did not sell an expensive fur coat in ten days and Giro's night club was a morbid expanse of bare white table tops on Thursday, usually the busiest night...
...Died. Giro ("The Boss") Terranova, 49, onetime Artichoke King; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 31 years of racketeering, Terranova was arrested 14 times, convicted once, jailed never...