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...Mill Neck, on Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then...
...took his richest guest, Irénée du Pont (middle brother), away for a private conference. Pierre du Pont regaled his guests, practically every last man of whom would have liked a job with the Du Ponts, with a splendid twilight dinner in the ballroom of his gorgeous greenhouse. An organ recital soothed the diners, and colored lights playing on the estate's fountains added more blandishments. But when it came to examining Du Pont manufacturing processes, the visiting chemical engineers saw as little as Du Pont chemical engineers permitted them...
After his lecture to New York City's police. Dr. Sheehan sped back to the Fifth Avenue Surgery of Dr. J. Eastman Sheehan, which envious doctors say is the world's most gorgeous consultation establishment. There are two butlers, a general manager (Henry Osman), a secretary and blonde Hilda Krupp, the housekeeper who stands by all day so that at any moment the Doctor may have his whittled asparagus, hamburgers or sausages, toast, strawberry jam and tea. Hilda also presses his suits (25 at a time), rolls bandages, keeps everybody cheerful, including Henry who has most...
Unlike Britain's King-Emperor, Japan's Son of Heaven provides no "courts" at which dowagers and debutantes can curtsy, but like George V, Hirohito does give garden parties. Last week 7,000 socialite Japanese, many in gorgeous court kimonos of rarest silk, and some 700 foreigners among whom missionaries, businessmen and journalists outnumbered diplomats, arrived for the Imperial...
...every German knows, Nazi No. 1 eschews pomp, never wears anything more pretentious than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages...