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...owner, Bostonian Carroll J. Swan, in 1935, Little, Brown & Co. agreed to publish the almanac for five years. Its contract ended with the 148th edition. But this week the 149th was scheduled to come out bright & shiny as ever, kitchen-nail hole and all. Its new publisher: shrewd, shaggy Robb Sagendorph, Boston social registerite and Harvardman ('22), who publishes and edits the monthly Yankee, at Dublin...
Gerald Hendorson '21, Richard S. Humphrey '21, R. Minturn Sedgwick '21, Winsor Gale '22, Richard R. Higgins '22, R. Keith Kane '22, Robert F. Bradford '23, Sheridan A. Logan '23, F. Wolsey Pratt '23, Russell Robb '23, Francis T. Baldwin '24, Arthur L. Coburn, Jr. '24, James J. Leo '24 Brooks Potter '24, Gardner Cowles, Jr. '25, Theodore Pearson '25, William E. Stillwell, Jr. '25, John E. Toulmin '25, Richard H. Field '26, Dudley Merrill '26, John D. W. Morrill '26, Stanley do J. Osborno '26, Edward H. Bailey...
...attending tonight's Jubilee, complete to yesterday noon: JUBILEE COMMITTEE Harvey C. Taylor Jr., bairman Laila Ernet, Brookline John P. Bunker Barbara Boyden, Winnetka, Ill. Thomas C. Carroll Melen Ransom, Nashville, Tenn. Thomas L. Higginson Sally Russell, Brookline George N. Hurd Marjorie Handy, New York Endicott Peabody II Roberts Robb, Brookline Robert T. Abbott Clare Wardaworth, Boston Berrien P. Anderson Mary Anderson, San Francisco Roger Angell Evelyn Baker, Weston Elisha Atkins Elsa Mohr, Philadelphia Charles A. Baker Alice Ann Moore, Newport, R. I. Hugh S. Harbour Maria Kidder, New York City Yale A. Harkan Elinore Glazier, Belmont Daniel D. Barker...
...Manhattan she felt at home as soon as she walked into her first Christmas Eve party and saw her future husband, Adman J. Addison Robb Jr. "He had a little black mustache and shook up the cocktails. He was just my idea of a city slicker." When, after 18 months, Publisher Patterson suddenly promoted her to society editor, she simply carried her notebook and pencil to debutante parties and night clubs, asked friendly photographers to point out important faces...
What she brought to society reporting was not only a gift of phrase, but a lively news sense, and the ability to see the group she records as a current in the general news stream. When Broker Richard Whitney crashed, Reporter Robb's column was devoted to reporting what lunchers at "21" and the Colony had to say about it. Few society reporters take so newsworthy an approach. She spurns the usual drivel of rumor and chitchat...