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...when Dr. de la Füye stood up at the society's dinner dance to receive the Order of the Green Dragon from Prince Buu Loc, he did not look like a champion. He keeled over in a dead faint. Mme. de la Füye dug her fingernail into her husband's left pinkie (hsiaochung). He stood up for a moment, then toppled again. By this time, Dr. Alexandre Guillaume had found a gold needle, and jabbed it in De la Füye's hsiaochung until the patient complained: "Hey, that hurts!" Thus revived...
Orchestra Builder. The Call-Bulletin tried to say something for the nonmusical man: "We'll leave all the fancy words about his greatness as a musician to the music critics and just say that he was an extraordinarily likable guy, and that San Francisco will miss him and Mme. Monteux very much." Lamented the Chronicle: "The end of an era in the cultural life of this community...
...Cobina left the mystery for the mystics to explain, and hurried home to fasten her dominion on New York City. In a short time the young singer was surrounded by famous admirers (T.R. himself, she says, called her voice "Deelight-ful!"), won the patronage of the famed operatic soprano, Mme. Frances Alda, and married bestselling Novelist Owen (Stover at Yale) Johnson...
Where most designers show only a handful of originals, industrious Mme. Veneziani startled everybody by reeling off so many -(130, mainly sportswear) that she had her mannequins parade four and five at once to save time. When she was done, even her rivals cast aside professional jealousy to swarm around her, crying, "Bravissimo!n and bussing her plump cheek. Overcome, Veneziani broke down and wept. Said a California department-store buyer: "The entire American sports world should have been here...
Cardinal Spellman was greeted in Formosa by Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, reported that 300 Catholic Chinese prisoners of war in Korea had begged him to try to get them to Formosa to join the Nationalist troops...