Word: palme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally one of vaudeville's "Willson Sisters," Mrs. Millicent Willson Hearst, mother of five sons, sumptuous hostess, (Palm Beach, California, New York, the Continent), philanthropist, landlady of smart Manhattan apartments, dabbler in English magazines (Nash's), is the daughter of Comedian George Willson, clog dancer, once famed as "George Leslie" for his Negroid dance "Mule in the Sand." now opulently retired, addicted to the stovepipe...
March 15-Men's southeastern championship; at Palm Beach Tennis Club. Palm Beach...
...West Palm Beach, James H. R. Cromwell, son of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, famed Philadelphian, posed with his mother, wearing a silk bathrobe ornamented with nude women and nymphs, then dropped the bathrobe. Attired in shorts and boxing shoes he boxed before a gallery of debutantes with Tommy Loughran, once light-heavyweight champion of the world, who wore the proper costume for boxers in training-a headguard and gym tights. Loughran refrained from knocking Cromwell out during the bout, at the end of which Cromwell was given the decision, by prearrangement...
Golf. Like men professionals, most good women golfers go to Florida every winter to play the flat, windy courses at Palm Beach, La Gorce, St. Augustine. In the State Championship at Palm Beach last week, Virginia Van Wie won the medal. Bernice Wall lost to Mrs. J. F. Trounstine after an argument because Mrs. Trounstine had lifted Bernice Wall's ball by mistake on the 16th green. Maureen Orcutt equaled the women's course record, 77, to beat Virginia Van Wie in the finals two days later...
...publishers, but to the London Graphic (illustrated weekly) goes the well-merited palm for ultimate journalistic impertinence. It has equipped one Dr. Erich Salomon, under the pseudonym of "Cyclops," with a camera which will take pictures of people where they have never been successfully snapped before?in ordinary electric lamp light. This enables him, for example, to attend a great banquet and photograph a queen with a spoonful of soup at her lips. For the past ten months the Graphic has published such stealth-got snapshots. Last week Graphic readers smirked and tittered at the "Unsuspected Moments" page. Not only...