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...Tailor's Maid (Royal; Trans-Lux) presents Italy's suave Vittorio De Sica as a rich tailor who loves to wrap his charms around female customers. "A tailor," he suggestively tells a pretty matron, "is like a doctor, dear lady...
...larger Coney Island with peculiar Mediterranean overtones. Last year Capri's 9,000 inhabitants watched 1,250,690 visitors scurry about the island; this year even more tourists are expected. Recoiling at the mere memory of Capri's milling mob of middle-class humanity, one starchy American matron indignantly proclaimed: "And for this I gave up a papal audience...
Palm Beach Matron Gregg Sherwood Dodge, 35, fifth wife of freewheeling Auto Heir Horace Dodge Jr., announced that she has raised $2.5 million in cash and pledges for "Girls' Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence...
Thanks to weeks of forewarning, all the struck hospitals had laid in extra stocks of food and linens, had enrolled volunteers who ran trays (with pickup meals on paper plates), trundled patients to and from operating theaters, operated elevators. One Park Avenue matron, Mrs. Sidney Milan, showed up with her butler: she passed out trays while he ran an elevator. Since professional staffs (doctors and nurses) were not involved, patients suffered no serious ill effects...
...songs. "I want to see the people," said Castro, trying to break through his 200-man guard. His escort hauled Castro off to his car. That night, he drew fluttery glances at a Women Lawyers Association meeting. "Doesn't he remind you of a younger Jimmy Stewart?" one matron asked...