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...Dewey Jr., 19 (pitcher), and the pollster's boy, George H. Gallup Jr., 21 (catcher). In Manhattan, James W. Symington, 24, son of the retired RFC head and a law student at Columbia University, picked up a contract to sing in the Carnaval Room of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Said Tenor Symington: "I'm paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide to Governor General Vincent Massey. He was, he said, "a summer sports...
...leave here this afternoon, New York's restaurants will probably tempt you first. You will most likely with to get an far away from dining hall food as possible, a simple matter if you hit for the Sherry-Netherland...
Surrounded by relatives and friends in a suite at Manhattan's Hotel Sherry Netherland, durable Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch celebrated his 80th birthday with champagne and caviar, ice cream and cake. Baruch, who back in 1947 said that he was bowing out of public life, had definitely changed his mind: "The sands are running out for me, but I'm not senile yet. I'll know when I am, and I'll shut up. But I am still able to cope with those fellows [in Washington], and I'll keep telling them what I think...
...chef at Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland hotel asked several gourmets to name their favorite after-theater supper dishes. Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller said he favored hot crabmeat in cream. Artist Salvador Dali liked tripe a la mode de Caen. Author Michael (The Green Hat) Arlen fancied hot Virginia ham topped with poached fresh peaches, the whole bathed in Madeira sauce...
...afraid that's just a rumor." Then, with a sidelong glance at the Duke: "I have quite a full-time job now." One of the Duke's first jobs on U.S. soil: escorting his Duchess to a New Year's Eve party at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, where the Windsors bumped into another exiled royal couple, King Peter and Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia...