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From Manhattan, Actress Ella Raines angrily wired Hollywood cops to recover a set of patio chairs she said had been pinched by Actress Miriam Hopkins. Miss Hopkins promptly obliged with a calmer version of the story: "I borrowed the patio furniture for a party, and I was just being real neighborly, you know, like swapping rice pudding or something . . . She said some vicious things about me, but I don't want to say anything about Ella. She's a sweet little girl and I can't understand it ... I've never laughed more...
...Faiths Committee gathered dresses, perfume, knickknacks, and jewelry that included a diamond necklace with emerald pendant. With white-dinner-jacketed Auctioneer Coe spurring on the bidding at a party in the Patio Restaurant, St. Edward's netted...
...Copacabana's handsome square, thousands of Bolivian Indians, the men in grinning masks, the women adorned with sparkling silver belts and jewelry, staged another uproarious carnival. At a border village, scores of Indians were staggering around the patio of a house where a wedding fiesta was in progress. In a room off the patio sat the bride and bridegroom, immobile, glassy-eyed, unable even to speak. "They are seasick," explained a guest...
Osorio resigned as junta boss last October to run for elective office. Uncomfortable in civilian clothes, he campaigned from the patio of his cream-colored house in San Salvador, let others take the stump. Shrewd Politico Osorio figured there would not be much to argue about anyway, since coffee prices had soared high enough to please every planter, and the junta's friendliness toward unions had sewed up the workers' vote...
...house were more than doubled by the accessible decks, patio and garden. The B.s agreed that it cut down on housework and let a lot more sun, space and air into their lives. It would not date-at least not for a long time-it fitted all their special needs, and it was handsome in a boldly simple way. When they had sold their antiques and moved in, Mrs. B. could think of only one word to describe the way she felt about it: "Liberation...