Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, café-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...
...Bong] likes to get into his Lightning and to fly. Every time he did he came in off the sea at ten feet or so, pulled his plane up a bit and went over our camp ... Each time there was a whoosh! as the palm trees bent at a hurricane angle and the breeze raised the tent...
...patches and palm-roofed villages of free New Guinea the word came: him good fella white fella man had called for a big sing-sing to celebrate the passing of him bad fella Japan...
Died. Jules Semon Bache, 82, art-collecting, art-bestowing Manhattan banker and broker; after a brief illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. The monocled, well-preserved bon vivant took over his uncle's Wall Street firm in 1892, swelled it to 42 offices, 800 employes. He became one of the greatest patrons of pre-19th-Century art, in 1937 turned over to New York his Fifth Avenue mansion, with its choice, more-than-$12,000,000 assortment of canvases, from 18th-Century Giovanni Bellini to 18th-Century Sir Joshua Reynolds...
Henry Ford bent over the world's palm, foretold (for the Atlanta Constitution) that the war would be over in two months. "I can't tell my reasons. I have them, of course. That's all I care to say on the subject." The World War I Peace-Shipper continued: "My message to young people, those in uniform and those out of uniform, is simply this: find out the cause of war. That will stop wars quicker than anything I know. I could tell them, but it doesn't seem to work that way, somehow. They...