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...Again, Out Again. He fought with his party, but in 1928 was elected Mayor of Montreal anyway-chiefly because his friends outdid the opposition in voting the names of non-voting oldsters and invalids...
Gloria Vanderbilt, three months after Daughter Gloria cut off her $21,000 a year competence (TIME, March 25), carried out her threat to open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue...
Highest average per capita contribution for 1945: the Nazarene Church with $55.79. Lowest: Southern Baptists, with $14.18. The Northern Presbyterian Church, with an average contribution of $27.59, edged out the Episcopalians' $27.22; Southern Presbyterians outdid them both, with $31.90. Average contribution...
...prescribed maneuvers) which call for the most technical skill, but are not much fun to watch. "Free skating," which accounts for 40% in scoring, is more to the public taste: it allows the shimmering pirouettes made famous by Sonja Henie. In this, Philadelphia's pretty Eileen Seigh, 17, outdid Gretchen. But Gretchen had made her points where they counted most...
...James C. Petrillo, ingenious czar of the American Federation of Musicians, outdid himself in a new dispute with the radio networks: when stations broadcast a musical program over regular channels and FM at the same time, he ruled they will have to hire a second orchestra to stand...