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Would Eva go to Paris and London? There had been some loud reverberations. In Paris, Mmes. Auriol and Bidault had expressed their willingness to carry a welcome as far as a purely private tea party. Britain's press had warned of a frosty reception (the Royal Family will be in Scotland, obviating the possibility of a palace snub). The final decision would doubtless be made by Eva. She was as used to having her own way as she was to snubs...
...Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar. The collar only served to make him seem uncomfortable. Mmes. Litvinov and Maisky were conspicuously, modishly gowned...
...message which reached the U.S. last week, this independent member of the potent Soong family (sisters, Mmes. Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung; brothers, T. V. and T. L.) spoke in her sharpest vein. Said...
...walked arm in arm with young soldiers whose tunics were splashed with large and brilliant enameled medals. In the Park of Culture and Rest, a mélange of uplift, Coney Island and sylvan charm, family groups sat quietly under the lime trees on rest days. At the ballet Mmes. Lepeshinskaya and Cherkasova fluttered back on their points time after time for encores. Reciters read Pushkin's poetry to the crowded halls. The Red Army chorus sang to packed theaters. Factory girls and soldiers held parties and waltzed swiftly to the tootlings of brass bands. A new play, Russian...
...portraits are not for sale. They are samples. Each sample is by a different portrait painter. Most of 460 Park Avenue's clients are bank presidents, business executives, hotel managers, or fond family folk who want a portrait of husband, wife or child. By looking over Mmes. Shaw & Duplaix's samples, they can decide which artist is their dish. Prices range from $50 (for a drawing job by Portraitist Hester Merwin) to $7,000 (for a high-class likeness, John Sargent style, by famed Society Painter Charles Hopkinson). For each job it gets them, 460 Park Avenue charges...