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...over Europe. While at Deauville, she took up with an Egyptian named Pulley Bey, known then, according to the D.A., as "procurer by appointment to His Majesty King Farouk." Pulley took her home to Cairo as a tidbit for the king, but revolution prevented her meeting the girl-prone monarch...
...Rodin's bust of Louis XVI." Last summer, while visiting the Huntington Library at San Marino, Calif., I Was struck by this very resemblance. But the bust I was looking at is by a contemporary of Louis XVI, J. A. Houdon. If there is a bust of this monarch by Rodin, please print a reproduction and settle the question of Houdonit...
Eagerly and a little apprehensively, Washington is preparing for President-elect Eisenhower's inauguration. Unlike the coronation of a British monarch, or the installation of a Chibcha chief, the inauguration of an American President has never quite lost a certain air of improvisation: democracy, on this occasion, wants to wear a silk hat, but it also wants to knock silk hats into the Potomac...
...president of Harvard, James Bryant Conant got around a good deal. He was not only the untitled monarch of American education, but also the chief social figure in a highly social community--Harvard. Some of his social obligations he enjoyed, others he took up grudgingly...
...Charles Mendl, 80, one of the last of the sabled international set, received a belated bequest from the late Albert Lasker, philanthropist and Manhattan adman: $5,000 and a box of 100 monarch-sized Havana cigars. Said Sir Charles, grateful but slightly puzzled: "All I ever did for Lasker was to get him rooms at another hotel when the [Paris] Ritz was full-up during the tourist season...