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...Sighed Mrs. McCormick: "I'm completely overcome." Certainly the new queen was eminently qualified for her job. Marion McCormick, a grandmother in her 60s, is a third-generation Chicagoan, and one of the richest women in the U.S. She gives impeccable dinners, served on gold plate and fine Lowestoft china. She is a cousin by marriage of Bertie McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal Harbor, Me. and another in Miami. She is a generous benefactor of the Chicago Art Institute...
...piano" and " 'popup' cigarette boxes , . . decorated with a scotty or a nude." But she shows that her judgment has less to do with taste than with fashion when she advocates "tables made of old painted tin trays on a modern stretcher base" and "odd saucers of Lowestoft china ... as ashtrays...
...Fenwick, i.e., at funerals he grins cheerily at his fellow mourners; at weddings he actually shows "unrestrained gaiety." He cannot stand in a queue without "sneaking up to a higher place," or walk out of his apartment house without dropping his butts in the hallway (instead of in the Lowestoft). All the same, he strikes the reader as a more attractive man than he will be after he has let Vogue lighten his darkness...
...Henry F. du Pont bought no Lowestoft service decorated with ships from the American Art Association Anderson Galleries...
...records do not disclose that Mr. du Pont returned, at any time, any Lowestoft ship service to the American Art Association, the Anderson Galleries, or the American Art Association Anderson Galleries...