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...Side Issues." Abruptly, Accuser Hughes attacked Senator Brewster because of a story which the Senator had given to the press-that a T.W.A. hostess had refused to travel alone in a plane with Hughes. The aviator produced an affidavit from Hostess Harriet Applewick. She called the Senator's remarks "ridiculous...
...Army Hatred." The next day, Senator Brewster told newsmen that he regretted having brought up the story about the airline hostess. Then he quit the capital and flew off (in an American Airlines plane) to a vacation in Maine. But Howard Hughes was not through. He turned his guns on the Army. He and Noah Dietrich contended that it was "personal dislike" of Hughes by Major General Oliver Echols (wartime chief of Air Forces procurement) which blocked Hughes's efforts to speed building of the 200-ton "Hercules" and the XF-11 camera plane. And it was "Army hatred...
...Harlot's Guest. The hostess is an ex-prostitute named Mrs. Goodman. Among her guests: a kindly, timid intellectual, Max Ford; Max's brother Tom, physician and egocentric man of action; Father Morton, doddering, syphilitic priest; Daisy Tillet, "girl of the golden legs," to whom both brothers are attracted; Miss Black, who switched from an unfaithful Italian lover to religion...
...Sweden, the middies had shaken hands with spry old King Gustaf. They watched goggle-eyed on the beaches as buxom Swedish lasses publicly doffed their clothes to slip into scanty bathing suits in full public view. Later, a Swedish hostess was dumfounded when the adaptable middies, invited to take a dip in her private pool, promptly stripped to the buff and dove in. When she complained to a senior officer, he told her that the boys thought they were following the local custom. In Edinburgh, like their elder brothers in wartime, they had been greeted by street urchins calling...
According to the rules laid down by their hostess, the gentlemen would have to bid in cold cash (which would go to a charity) for the ladies they wished to escort during the impending quest. Some of the ladies objected; after a democratic vote, the majority went along with the auction plan. So Master-of-Ceremonies Baron Stanley of Alderley (he's terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven...