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...been elected so many times." When congratulated upon this and other sallies, the Mayor made a gesture of dismay, exclaiming: "My goodness, I forgot to mention Columbus. Just imagine an American speaking to Italians and forgetting Colum-bus." ¶After three days of lolling in bed or on the Lido beach, Mayor Walker emerged from his hotel to take the train for Rome. Said he: "I now feel like $1,000,000." ¶In Rome, the Mayor visited St. Peter's Basilica, saddened by the newly reported disaster to Rome-bound aviators, awed and impressed by the" grandeur...
...Pago-Pago atmosphere has little to do with the success of the Freshman Jubilee. This gathering of the clan, this occasion which transforms the usually mundane areas of the Smith Quadrangle and the Standish back yard into an extra Venice Lido, is symbolic of something in fact anything. It is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end: it is the pleasant death agony of the Freshman year and the natal travail of the Sophomore: it is a pre-examination respite and an opportunity for examination of feminine prerequisites; it is--it is the time of kingdom...
...printed, a map of the world. Thereon are inscribed the names of places where styles originate. There is Hollywood and Bar Barbor Deanville and Newport, Lido Venice, St. Moritz, Palm Beach, Epsom Downs, Paris, West-bury, New Haven and Princeton. "Men who know and care about what to wear," reads the legend underneath, "gather at these places for business, pleasure, or social activities" Cambridge, to the sartorial lexicographer of Hart. Schaffner and Marx, is terra incognita, a wild land whence explorers bring back tales of wild and unkempt savages, untailored philistines...
From England, the racquet men will journey to France to encounter the representatives of the Riding Club of Paris. Travelling on to Italy, they will meet the Italian Davis Cup team in several tournaments up at the Lido, Venice...
...Club Lido 808 7th Avenue...