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Your excellent coverage of the coronation sets new standards of high-level reporting, with the best of historical and political perspectives added for good measure. We share the happiness of a close neighbor who is throwing a swell shindig . . . We strongly suspect the drinks-and possibly the eats-are on us, so we may be pardoned if we view the proceedings with a jaundiced eye, [but] remembering always that our neighbor has lost much more than money in fighting two wars that were ours as well as his own-even before we got into them. So we doff our hats...
...dapper millionaire Don Carlos de Beistegui y Iturbi, a mysterious bachelor often called "The Count of Monte Cristo" by romantic gossipists. Months before the party, the international smart set whispered excitedly that the guest list would read like the Almanach de Gotha. To be invited to Don Carlos' shindig became a distinction fervently desired by the gilded socialites of the continents. Black markets sprang up in most of the world's fashionable capitals offering cards to the ball for as much as $500 each. Jacques Path, Dior and Valentina were busy for weeks ahead whipping up suitable 18th...
Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
Most of what the 21st annual awards told of the state of the cinema in 1948 lay in the presentation shindig itself. Planned in Hollywood's new economy, the affair was low-budgeted and undersized compared to past performances of the town's most profitable yearly publicity stunt. Only two searchlights cut into the overcast outside the theater; half a dozen blocks away, three Hollywood searchlights blazed gaudily for the opening of a new self-service gas station...
Pakistan's Governor General Khwaja Nazimuddin and Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan graciously wired congratulations and promoted the Amir to lieutenant general in Pakistan's army. It was the Amir's turn to be gracious. As a climax to his fabulous shindig, he announced the first popular reform in the state's history: a 25-member state assembly. The Amir would pick nine members, leaving 16 to be chosen by a complicated system of indirect election...