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...puzzled when a Perfect Couple, long married, split up for the valid but private reasons that he cannot stand her long fingernails, she his audible yawns. A wife from whose life the glory has departed clings to her faith in the glamour of actresses-and then meets one. Neatest job of the lot: "Here We Are," a dialog between bride and groom just after the wedding; few experienced husbands or wives will be able to restrain their shouts over this...
...finalists, four men and four women, went through their paces: three deadstick landings to a spot, two loops, a spin, two Immelman turns, two snap rolls-not prodigious feats, but calling for skill. Neatest performance was made by a woman, Mrs. Cecil W. ("Teddy") Kenyon of Waban, Mass. Pretty, blonde wife of a former transport pilot, Mrs. Kenyon received $5,000 and the title of champion airwoman. Not so good as Mrs. Kenyon at spot landings, but unsurpassed at aerobatics was an engaging young man named Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern...
...Sherwood was. Would Collector Duggan "play ball" with the American? He would. A rendezvous with Sherwood and his lawyers was arranged in a Hoboken saloon, where Sherwood was safe from a New York contempt-of-court citation (and $50,000 fine). Next morning the American burst out with the neatest, most spectacular scoop that Manhattan had seen in a long time...
...several months both State and Federal authorities have been digging into the long chain of manipulation which led to the insurance company's fall. Loans of $3,446,000 to the Stevens family & friends, use of dummies, frenzied finance were rooted out of the books. Neatest Stevens trick...
...internal workings of human nerves and glands, make her a writer who cannot avoid being labeled passionate but who never runs any danger of being cheap. Of the many Colette translations that have appeared in the U. S. in the last few years, The Ripening is one of the neatest and best. Philippe and Vinca have spent many a comradely summer in the seaside cottage rented jointly by their families. But this year adolescence has made their old comradeship a little tense. Very fond of each other, they are ashamed of the word "love," take it mutually for granted that...