Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contest held at Palm Beach's swank Colony Club, the leading contender for the title of "Glamor Girl of Palm Beach" was 17-year-old Cobina Wright Jr., Manhattan cafe society songstress. Judges were Photographer Hal Phyfe and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg. After an argument with his fellow judge, Flagg huffed: "I have a vote, but it is not for Miss Cobina Wright. However, I will turn my vote over to Phyfe, and he can make the choice." Phyfe promptly chose Cobina Wright. Next day Illustrator Flagg saw her on the beach in a one-piece bathing suit. Dazzled...
Died. Colonel Frank Emerson De Long, 75, inventor of a hook-&-eye fastener ("See That Hump?"); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...
Died. Charles Richard Crane, 80, world traveler, onetime president of Chicago's potent Crane Co. (plumbing), onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. At the age of 20, Charles Crane decided to travel "seriously," spent three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk...
Throwing caution and the regulation seer's turban to the winds, Walter L. Hyde '41, and Edward P. Edmunds '41, both of Leverett House, climaxed their palm-reading career with a tail-coated seance at the Bali Ball in Boston's Hotel Somerset...
Edmunds, whose home is in Manila, Philippine Islands, has been studying palm-reading for nearly four years. "Although I used to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence, there is now a lot of prophet in our business," Edmunds said, as he fingered his slim moustache. "It really comes in handy, especially at the better parties...