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...studio, spent the next quarter-hour in goofy, unrehearsed chatter with Jane, about a bridge game the night before. It was a hit. By the following year, Easy Aces had gone to Chicago and the big time. Now the Aces live in style at Manhattan's Ritz Tower, get a reported $3,500 a week...
Relations between U.S. and British and other Allied forces are most excellent in London. They amiably crowd the same corner pubs, complain about prices at the Savoy and Ritz, jostle each other in Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. In Hyde Park, baseball and softball games are now an evening institution. British civilians gather enthusiastically, but do not understand the game and cheer in the wrong places...
...final verdict will not be reached, however, until 12:30 o'clock this evening, when Miss Moore will personally make her selection assisted by the troupe of Powers models now appearing at the Ritz. "You see," she explained in an interview last night, "there really are no ugly men. A man with a sense of humor that shines through his personality is really not ugly. But there is nothing worse than a sour face...
...ASCAP's high-priced terms. No longer a monopoly, it had to scratch for its feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting, in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an enthusiastic ASCAPite proposed that the assembled members rise and intone "God bless Buck" three times. In the confusion that followed, President Buck blushed deeply. But it would have been no chant of hypocrisy. Gene Buck was eased out, not kicked out. He retains a seat...
From Mexico City gossips came the report that a flashy blonde who had left a trail of orange rinds and broken hearts in the cocktail bars at the Ritz and La Cucaracha had flown suddenly to Rio de Janeiro. She had tried to charter a special plane (so she must have been in a hurry). She had taken along handbags crammed with $200,000 in U.S. currency and at least $50,000 worth of jewels (so she must have connections). She had an Italian name and she had wanted to be in Rio in time for January's conference...