Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, still feeling jounced from his 13 days of flying, Bishop Ryan rested at Palm Beach. In a message addressed to "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amateur Fisherman" and signed "Bishop James Ryan, Amateur Diplomat," he informed the President of his return. In Washington, Father Sheehy delivered to Secretary of State Hull a confidential report on the two churchmen's able job of amateur diplomacy. Its gist: "The foundation has been laid for a 'Catholic front' to protect democracy in this hemisphere...
...past eight years at Manhattan's Metropolitan, pert French soprano Lily Pons has practically had a monopoly on old-fashioned Latin coloratura warbling. Last week, when Coloratura Pons hurried off to Palm Beach, Fla. to nurse a sudden cold, General Manager Edward Johnson shoved a brand-new Italian soprano, Lina Aimaro, into her part in Lucia di Lammermoor. A packjammed audience went to hear her, found Soprano Aimaro an earnest young Model T coloratura, with good top notes and a tendency to stall...
Died. Merritt Hulburd, 35, sometime associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post, cinema producer (Dodsworth, Dead End, Stella Dallas, The Hurricane); after long illness; in West Palm Beach...
...hours before returning Captain Eden marched up the Queen Mary's gangplank in Manhattan, down it marched Ambassador Joe Kennedy. He denied that his second return from London within six months had any high significance: he was just going to spend Christmas with son Jack at Palm Beach, rest for six weeks. The idea that he was in disfavor at the White House for having applauded the Chamberlain policy of "appeasement," he laughed off by asserting that his speeches in England were read in advance in Washington. Then he shed some of the celebrated Kennedy gloom...
Married. Gloria Baker, 19, No. 1 café-society glamor girl of 1937*. half-sister of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heiress to $10,000,000 (Bromo-Seltzer); and Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr., 24, Manhattan socialite and heir to $9,000,000 (tin-plate); in Palm Beach. A few days previously Topping was divorced by his first wife, Glamor Girl Jayne Dunham Shadduck Kirkland Topping, who got a settlement reputed...