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...running fire of contemptuous comment on Raft, the radio, the Swanee Sisters' sponsor, a socialite party which the Sisters attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in general. When the Swanee Sisters have executed a bewildering overnight rise from penniless unemployment to cabaret celebrity, Patsy Kelly is less pleased than truculently suspicious and, when a waiter hands her a caviar canapé, her dissatisfaction is complete. "What good is caviar?" she demands hoarsely. "It tastes like buckshot soaked in axle grease." Good songs: Take It Easy...
...young widow when Edith Gould introduced her to Harry Symes Lehr, Elizabeth Drexel was amused and entertained by him, found him tactful, with a flair for drawing out unsuspected talents, with an al- most feminine desire to please and say the right thing. Penniless, Lehr was a "little brother of the rich," hobnobbed with Wanamakers, Goulds, Fishes, Astors, Oelrichs. Born in Baltimore, son of a once-wealthy importer, he consciously made entertaining rich people his career. Tom Wanamaker was glad to let him occupy his apartment. Wetzel made his clothes free. Kaskel & Kaskel gave him the latest designs in shirts...
...convention was "We Choose Christ." This conviction caused 27-year-old Clyde Grubbs, Texas evangelist, to work his way on a caboose to Toledo, then hitchhike to Philadelphia. Jack Grosvenor, 19, bummed rides from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was robbed of his last $10 in Pennsylvania, pushed on penniless. A boy from Buffalo pedaled wearily to Philadelphia on a bicycle, arriving three days late. Most delegates from out-of-town arrived by automobile, were put up by local Christian Endeavorers. They arose at 7 a. m., gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading. Eager and uncritical...
...passport because to get one he would have had to swear an oath, which his religion forbade. Time & again German and Polish authorities had clapped him into jail, but Ernest Elmer Baker always got out and kept on walking. Soviet frontier guards had finally picked him up ragged and penniless near Minsk...
...father is president of Kentucky's Berea College and his younger brother vice president of Yale-in-China, but Bob Hutchins might never have turned to Education if it had not been for beauteous Maude McVeigh. He was 22, penniless and wanted to be a lawyer, but a prep-school teaching job looked like the only way he could earn enough to support a wife. Like nearly all university presidents' wives, Maude Hutchins has been roundly criticized for snobbishness. Mrs. Hutchins, however, is a New Englander with a mind of her own. Scores of faculty folk have...