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Oldtimers could complain that something was missing. Champagne and luxury limousines were war victims; women had to wear their "1938 best"; high taxes had forced the Warwickshire Club to sell admission tickets for the first time in history. But much glitter had survived...
...former Secretary of State Ed Stettinius, Democratic Senator Tom Connally, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes. But the debate had only begun. As the names of Harry Truman's five alternate delegates were read, Arkansas' liberal Democrat J. William Fulbright got up with a glitter...
...They were married in the White House and lived there for a year before moving to their home in Georgetown. Mrs. Macy was well known in Manhattan cafe society, and some of Harry's old friends of WPA days began mumbling that Harry was deserting them in favor of glitter and wealth. But long before he met his present wife, Hopkins had had many friends among the rich?the Whitneys, the Harrimans, the Forrestals, the Stettiniuses, the John Hertzes?moving as effortlessly in their circles as he once did among the poor of Manhattan's lower east side. Bernard Baruch...
Outwardly there was little splash or glitter-few limousines or evening clothes, and a wartime, 6:30 curtain. But tickets were priced above rubies, the lobbies were a mass of craning necks and exploding flash bulbs. Last week Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne gave London one of its biggest first nights since the war began...
...sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...