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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inauguration in January was a great occasion in San Juan. One of the most notable facts about the ceremony was the presence of an imposing list of U.S. bankers and industrialists, including Macy's Beardsley Ruml and David Rockefeller of the Chase National Bank...
General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera, pressed by Atlanta reporters to name his successor after he retires next year, obliged with a list that included Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior and Billy Rose, who loves to give widely syndicated free advice...
Columnist Elsa Maxwell rated first place on Hearstling Cholly Knickerbocker's annual list of the world's worst-dressed women because "she could put on an exquisite creation by Christian Dior or Jacques Fath and look as if she were wearing a sack of potatoes." Trailing Elsa came sexagenarian Musicomedienne Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy...
...Mumble. The Management Club had still more do's & don'ts to offer. It had written them up in a booklet (How to Sell Yourself), which gave everything from a handy list of Seattle industries to how to write an application letter. But most important, said the booklet, "You stand or fall at the interview." Anything from "radical ideas" to a "limp, fishy handshake," could ruin a job hunter's chances. Things not to do during an interview: "Don't interrupt, don't beg, don't be breezy, don't talk too much...
Anyone who wishes to order an Album now can do so by contacting Carlson, Coombs added. Applicants will be placed on a waiting list for extra copies, if any are available...