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...Maury and brilliant carrot-haired Editor Brendan Bracken of The Banker. Spotting "Winston," the whole party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever been seen at a top-drawer Mayfair ball. Each of the young men, fine apple-cheeked lads mostly and quick to blush, was given a Leap-Year favor which he had to decide on the spot to wear either red side out or green side out. On the red side was lettered, "Stop. Do not propose...
...other English speakers on the German radio. The difference is that he has been ridiculed to fame. The Daily Express's Jonah Barrington dubbed him Haw-Haw last September. BBC comics lost no time ribbing him in rhyme. He became a character in a revue, was impersonated at Mayfair affairs. Trying to figure out his real identity became a national British pastime. He was spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander once clapped in the Tower of London for betraying military secrets...
...train popped Joe Kennedy, face red as ever, to race through the echoing grand concourse of Washington's Union Station. His Mayfair chums would have been horrified, for it was breakfast time and spectacled Mr. Kennedy was still wearing last night's evening clothes...
...paying a stiff "corkage charge" or they leave advance orders at the club to have it sent in from wholesalers and "stored" until the guest arrives. The cheapest wine comes to $4 per bottle by this system, the cheapest whiskey $5. In the World War II bottle party boom, Mayfair clubs are now offering elaborate and sexy floor shows (see cuts), causing some wonder at London's Picture Post's observation that "the atmosphere is rather like that of a family party where the younger girls are in tearing spirits and occasionally do the splits or snatch...
...floor show. Dancing isn't too marvelous. . . . The Brown Derby-about the same as the foregoing-a little less expensive. . . The Casa Manana nice setting with good music and food make this a good bet. Probably will be crowded as it isn't murderous in its prices. . . . The Mayfair: about the same as the others, a little noisier, and more expensive. . . Crawford House-to be avoided if possible. Slumming that isn't even fun. . . By the way, we almost forgot the two swanker of the Boston night spots, the Fox and Hounds and the newly created Zero Hereford. Music...