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Avenue tailor. Most of all he likes to wear outlandish hats. His current favorite: a Swiss yodeler's hat. Says Jimmy: "It keeps people talking." Unlike most of today's early-to-bed pros, in the evenings Demaret usually heads for the nearest night club-to hobnob with a bandleader and sing a song with the band. Like golf's great showman of the 1920s, Walter Hagen, he never lets golf interfere with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good-Time Jimmy | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...that, Minnie got a new outfit, went off for a week's free stay in Hollywood, to hobnob with movie stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: The Women | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...kind of company Harry Truman liked. None of them was a policymaker from the high levels of the Roosevelt Administration. In his two and a half months as Vice President, Harry Truman had not been invited to sit in with the policymakers; he had continued to hobnob with his Congressional cronies. At the end of a working day, he liked especially to sit with Sam Rayburn's lively, politically wise group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Thirty-Second | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Attention! Adjust bow-ties! Two! "Off we go into the Vendome yonder. . ." It's this Saturday evening, men, and hundreds of beautiful women, so finish off that nasty old report and let's hobnob with Boston's bellest belles. And watch those married men go to town! BUT, that's somenone else's assignment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 2/26/1943 | See Source »

Beau Jack's patrons expected nothing but fun for their money. They held board meetings, appeared in a body every time Little Beau fought, trooped to his dressing room to hobnob with the fight mob. But Beau Jack was no palooka. Sticking to his battle-royal style, he licked 40 of his 45 opponents. And with Wergeles' incessant trumpeting about his Stork Club backers, Beau Jack became famed as the Stork Club champ. He made so much dough that Manager Wergeles recently repaid the syndicate every dollar they invested. Even the Beau has $10,000 in a trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stork Club Champ | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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