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...what? In the papers, for one thing. There is many a well-to-do matron who will gladly contribute as much as $10,000 to a charity (plus a program ad for her husband's business) for the privilege of being on the ball committee. This entitles an eager beaveress to be photographed for the society pages with an established society leader at a fashionable restaurant, and may even lead to a mention in a gossip column. The earnest climber who accumulates enough of such credits, like an Eagle Scout with a sash of merit badges, obtains recognition among...
...Bonn wineshop now sells Hennessy cognac at $3.75 a bottle while the best German Weinbrand at the same price gathers dust.* From tiny Fiats to elegant Ferraris, some 400,000 imported cars have been sold in West Germany. In a posh Dusseldorf shoe salon last week, a matron, eyeing the latest square-toed model, snapped: "Is It Italian?" Replied the salesgirl: "Madam, we sell only Italian shoes." German sausage and French pate are pouring into Belgium at twice the pre-1958 rate. One of Brussels' largest stores laid on a Common Market exhibi tion earlier this year called "Europe...
...Bond Street offices of London's famed wine merchants, Justerini & Brooks, a member of the firm winced as he recalled the time an American matron served him a chilled claret. "Unfortunately," he said, "my hostess saw my grimace and quickly apologized, explaining that the butler must have left the bottle in the refrigerator too long. What can you do with people like that but sell them whisky...
...staid Matron of 42nd St. has, in the past, raised our ire when she joshes at objections to the NDEA affidavit or confuses Ivy League admissions policy or attempts to knife our Mac. On this occasion we join with all of Cambridge (and Cantabrigians living in Washington) to hail...
...plenty on their minds. A 22-year-old Chinese woman wrote that she had been a "walking zombie" since the death of her mother; her published letter produced a flood of sympathy, including an answer from an elderly haole (Caucasian) woman who had lost her husband. The bereaved young matron and the bereaved widow are now fast friends...