Word: petites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hermann Oelrichs was no exception. His wife, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, began the building of Rosecliff when there were already some mighty mansions to surpass. Stanford White designed the house; Augustus Saint Gaudens built the outer court, patterned after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. There she gave her most famous party, the Bal Blanc, arranged by Ward McAllister, attended by the 400, and costing Mr. Oelrichs $30,000. Into Rosecliff she packed what Henry James called the "loot" of Europe: Gobelin tapestries, cloisonné vases, Renaissance statuary, Jacobean furniture, Sèvres china, paintings, libraries, silver sets, visiting aristocrats...
...Petit Parisien reported fortnight ago that they had been butchered and sold piecemeal to famished French housewives for 10? a pound...
...Detroit Lakes, Minn.; John A. Ordway, 2d. '42, Franklin, N. H.; Robert Paine '42, Memphis, Tenn.; Harold C. Passer '43, Faribault, Minn.; Donald J. Patton '42, Cortaro, Ariz.; Dick S. Payne '43, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Daniel M. Pearce '42, Ripley, Tenn.; Jack M. Peterson '42, Portland, Ore.; Alan W. Petit '41, Berkeley, Calif.; Chris G. Petrow '41, Webster City, Ia.; Norman H. Pike '42, Sioux City...
Chief looseners are a trio of sailors impersonated by Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington & Frankie Hyers-the last two on leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan...
...Lewd. The day of "fat, puffing State employes" was also past, according to Le Petit Parisien, which announced the introduction of compulsory physical training. To Vichy, after escaping the Germans three times as an artillery captain, went France's famed "Bounding Basque," tennis star Jean Borotra, to become Secretary General of Physical Education. Insisting that he is no politician, only a sportsman, Borotra announced that physical education would henceforth be as important as intellectual education, surmised that his job would be difficult because of the nation's "softness and previous indifference...