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Hero Prince. Reich War Minister von Blomberg last week stole Austria's greatest war hero. In all German garrison towns was read a proclamation setting forth, on the 200th anniversary of the death of great Prince Eugene of Savoy, that Eugene was a Pan-German hero who had saved Germany from the "predatory greed" and "plundering, burning and murdering armies" of France's Louis...
...educated, cultured girl in an awful jam. . . . Neatly dressed and actually beautiful, like someone you'd meet at the Savoy-Plaza about cocktail time," pronounced the Hearstian Evening Journal...
...Johnnie" by an aunt, but after he learned storekeeping under his mother's stern tutelage, he adopted John as a formal middle name. He personally supervises Magnin's staff of buyers in Manhattan. A friendly, dignified little man, President Magnin lives with his wife at the Hotel Savoy-Plaza, always spends three months a year in Europe. The active San Francisco Magnin is his youngest brother, Vice President & General Manager Grover Arnold Magnin, 50, short and ruddy. He has just taken a duplex suite in the St. Francis Hotel near his matriarchal mother...
...definition, however, has given jazzmen many a troubled hour. Author Hugues Panassie of the classic Le Jazz Hot tentatively explains "swing" as "une sorte de balancement dans de rythme et la mélodic qui comporte toujours un grand dynamisme." To black Bandmaster Chick Webb of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, swing "is like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back it's somethin' inside...
...before the wedding newshawks found Bridegroom Davies at Manhattan's Hotel Savoy-Plaza, discovered that he had given his fiancee a diamond described as big as a 50-cent piece, reported him "extremely nervous." All arrangements for the ceremony and reception in Mrs. Hutton's huge private-elevator penthouse at No. 2 East 92nd St. were in Mrs. Hutton's capable hands. Few days before Mrs. Hutton managed to squeeze in the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Marjorie Post Hutton Free Food Station from which derives her tabloid title of "Lady Bountiful of Hell...