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Others thought it was good, too. The dance had spread to the U.S. In Manhattan, Tony & Sally de Marco introduced a fancy-dress version at the Plaza Hotel and on the stage of Broadway's Capitol Theater. Bandman Emil Coleman was playing it nightly along with foxtrots, rumbas and sambas for the Waldorf-Astoria patrons...
Consolation In Mecca. Meanwhile, along Marco Polo's ancient silk trail, a Red army pressed westward from captured Lanchow, toward the important Yumen oilfields, and the Sinkiang oases. Some 40,000 hard-riding but weakly armed Moslem horsemen were the only barrier...
Early last week shy, bespectacled Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Minister of Defense, and dumpy Lieut. Colonel Marco Pérez Jiménez, Chief of Staff, called on President Gallegos. Their message was simple: do as the army has bidden or else. Deadline: tomorrow. Next day the entire cabinet resigned, but the day dragged on without a word of a new cabinet...
...Sally De Marco, half of high society's classiest dance team, unveiled a novel taffeta-&-tulle number she declared she had run up herself, explained candidly to the press, "I just kept adding stuff to the back" (see cut). She habitually spent "at least $50,000" a year on her clothes, said she. "But I don't mind, really," she hurried on, making everything clear. "Dancing in a new dress is . . . completely exhilarating...
Kabul's bazaars, the oldest in Asia, displayed the same kind of goods they had when Marco Polo stopped off there seven centuries ago. New items had been added. Mostly from the U.S. had come the lawn mowers, baby carriages, perfumes, canned goods...