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...season for Washington valets, ladies' maids, society reporters and the President of the U. S. opened last week. With the Cabinet Dinner and the Diplomatic Reception, President & Mrs. Roosevelt started their annual round of state parties in the White House. Red-haired young Mrs. Ickes in vivid green satin shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans Dieckhoff...
...some of his profits in a professional football team (Boston Redskins) six years ago, he brought many innovations into the twelve-year-old National Football League. It was his idea to divide the league into two divisions, have a post-season play-off for the championship. He introduced red satin trousers for his players, entertainment at intermission. But Bostonians were apathetic to Showman Marshall's ideas. After dropping $85,000 there, he transplanted his Redskins in Washington last year...
...Samuel Hoare sat in the peanut gallery draped in blue satin, as though forgetfully he had worn his spouse's negligee to the Abbey...
...news that George Gershwin was the creator of three fairly recent movie tunes, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Love Walked In-all played under the title of Hollywood Medley. Smash hit of the evening was poised, satin-voiced Negro Maxine Sullivan, singing Nice Work and Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) from memory. The rest of the vocalists, apparently under some pernicious radio influence, had not bothered to learn their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses of Do It Again...
Down the aisle dividing the men and women in the Matinecock Meeting House in Glen Cove. L. I. marched satin-gowned Florence Elizabeth Willits and Isaac Hicks Cocks. They sat down on a plain wooden bench facing 200 guests. For several minutes there was no sound in the ancient frame building. At length, when the spirit moved them, Florence Willits and Isaac Cocks rose and faced each other. The man took the girl's hand, declared he would take her for his wife. The girl repeated the pledge. Then they sat down. Thereupon everyone present signed a wedding certificate...