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Actually there were more Willkie offices in town than even he could get under his size 7¾ hat. Volunteer workers had opened several. And in the plush and marble Benjamin Franklin Hotel, where Candidate Taft had his elegant headquarters in the ballroom and on two additional floors. Willkie headquarters had been established in a small suite of rooms on the 16th floor. There he arrayed himself, big and burly in a blue suit, charging from one room to another, standing hour after hour answering newsmen, posing for photographers, meeting spectators, delegates, anybody. Even when he dashed...
...night last week B. F. Goodrich Co. gave a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Its climax: Goodrich President John Lyon Collyer parted blue plush curtains to reveal a map of the world. On it a line of green neon lights traced the rubber route from Singapore, via Suez and the Mediterranean, to the U. S. and Goodrich's Akron plant. Traveling the rubber route with President Collyer's warning words was a small cardboard boat. In mid-Atlantic, a loud explosion blew...
Fortnight ago Ouida Rathbone was at it again. So was the weather. It poured. But that did not stop 54 guests, representing most of Hollywood's international elite, from streaming into the plush-conditioned Rathbone mansion. Occasion was a party in honor of Polish:born Pianist Artur Rubinstein. London-born Conductor Leopold Stokowski, and Poland...
...died in 1919. During her lifetime she had: 1) seen her Poems of Passion, published in 1883, sell 60,000 copies in two years and take its place in plush binding with The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam on the nation's parlor table; 2) purveyed sunshine and consolation to the multitude through syndicated articles in Hearst papers; 3) triumphantly covered the funeral of Queen Victoria for the New York American, by writing, on the spot, a poem called The Queen's Last Ride; 4) been presented as a famous American at the Court of St. James...
...clear summer night in Texas the moon hangs like a huge orange Chinese lantern; the stars sit like fat, cool diamonds on a sky of jewelers' plush; the earth is silent with the windless quiet of a thousand miles of sleeping land...