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Twelve Radcliffe girls gave a tree-trimming and taffy-pulling party at 33 Healy st., Thursday evening, as thanks for a Christmas dinner given them by their head resident, Mrs. William Peach...
...tree got trimmed, finally, but the taffy didn't pull. "We can always blame it on too many cooks," the participants explained. In addition to the dozen residents, ten guests, Mr. and Mrs. Peach, and their six-year-old daughter, Stephanie, all joined in the festivities...
...Tree. But the real inventory problem was not in industry but on the farms-and in those products not supported by the Government. Near Palisade, Colorado, bronzed Harold Motz looked over his 15 acres of peach trees, complained: "I'm losing money for the first time since 1932." Motz had picked all his peaches, but "a lot of the boys," he said, "just left them on the tree. They just didn't sell well." In the rich San Luis Valley, farmers estimated that a quarter of a million crates of lettuce and 70,000 tons of cabbage...
After their 1914 wedding in Hoboken, N.J., Billie discovered that Ziegfeld wore long, silk, peach-colored underwear, which she quickly threw away. But life went on being brightly colored. Ziegfeld liked to tear off to Palm Beach to play roulette. He won or lost $50,000 at a sitting, would say "Go away, dear," when "I tiptoed in to plead with him in whispers." He insisted on traveling in private railroad cars, and when their daughter Patty was six, Ziegfeld bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs...
Attainable Goal. As Betty herself readily admits, her talents are unremarkable. Unlike some other movie stars, she can lay no claims to sultry beauty or mysterious glamor. Her singing and dancing are pleasant and spirited, but not highly skilled. Her peach-cheeked, pearl-blonde good looks add up to mere candy-box-top prettiness. Even her intensively publicized legs (immortalized in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, along with Gable's ears and Barrymore's profile) cannot compare in symmetry to Dietrich...