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...Delt house, where he is president for the second year, he is a sharp bridge player and a whizz at cribbage. His card sense helps augment his G.I. allotment and the $50 a month he gets from his dad, who is an executive in a Toledo, O., porcelain-products company. On the practice field, Chappuis is very "coachable," which is exceptional in a senior. Chappuis learns easily, just as he does in the classroom, where he makes a C-plus average seemingly without ever opening a book...
Princess Elizabeth, whose country house burned and who would have no trousseau, had nice news for a change. Nanking sent a Foreign Office man into Kiangsi province to watch over the production of a good Chinese porcelain service...
Helen Hayes, whose playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, slipped in the shower last year and cracked a rib, slipped in the same shower, grabbed at a porcelain grip, broke it, sliced her right forearm ten stitches worth...
Sold by the beauteous Duchess of Kent: household special-effects accumulated by the late Duke. The Duchess, now in smaller quarters, has no room for them. At auction in London, a Sèvres china dessert service brought ?609, a pair of porcelain vases ?1,260, a walnut settee ?1,785. Total receipts...
Unlike the present crop of blues singers, most of whom indulge in manic-depressive moans, Julia sings her blues with an exuberant bounce which she calls "Kansas City style with a terrific rhythm." On her piano stands a white porcelain "kitty," where fans stuff as much as $60 a night (in addition to her $150 weekly salary). Beside her is a pitcher of water, to wash down the jiggers of bourbon which customers buy her. As a kind of jolly mother confessor to the depressed spirits in the audience, Julia usually ends up a group of songs with an invitation...