Word: janet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardling, Michael K. Clark, of Hollis Hall and New York City, was informed by mail that he and Miss Janet Thompson had been appointed as foster parents over a tiny Spanish refugee, Concha Romero Bonilla, who is at present being taken care of in a children's colony near Biarritz in Southern France...
Although the committee has met with considerable success in obtaining male entertainers, the female side has failed utterly, after the sudden retirement of Betty Randall, N.B.C. singer. Janet Carrol, now singing in the Latin Quarter in Boston, is a likely possibility but aside from her none are in sight...
...sophistication outwardly evident in a billowing grey mop and man-about-town monocle, Francophile Janet Planner still has a certain girlish naïveté. Her friends remember that when Vanity Fair asked her for a series on French murders she objected that Americans wouldn't be interested because French murders were so different from American murders...
Pressed to explain, Janet ran a distraught hand through her hair and recabled: "Well, for example, in France nobody ever kills anyone he doesn't know." An American in Paris is a selection of the best of her New Yorker and Vanity Fair sketches. Each a mosaic of tidbits culled from hundreds of informants, each sleek with refined comedy, these reports and profiles are a valuable dossier on the very highest life of the past 20 years...
...Janet Planner believes firmly that the international smart set of those years was "even more important than its members thought, which is saying a great deal." In dealing with the private lives of such public persons as Queen Mary, the late Isadora Duncan, the late Edith Wharton, Gabrielle Chanel, she is superb...