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...Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind the brows, and sense the thunder in the voice"). To the honest, indignant poor, Runyon gave descriptions of Capone's ill-gotten silken underwear...
Youngsters may be puzzled by Ruth Etting's unsubtle singing of the old songs she made famous (Ten Cents a Dance, Love Me or Leave Me, Shine On, Harvest Moon). Her straightforward style is a far cry from the slick and silken whisperings of the younger generation's favorite song pluggers. But to their parents and their uncles and their aunts, Ruth Etting is still an item, as she proved in a comeback last March...
...Silken Curtain. In Sweden, where Wallace hopped next, he was received by a choir singing the U.S. national anthem. Ac Stockholm University's auditorium, a crowd of 1,000 people fought to get in for an hour before Wallace was scheduled to speak. But Wallace had gone to another auditorium, where a handful of people were waiting for another speaker, and started to speak before someone found him. There was something about Henry Wallace that bred disorder-even among the orderly Swedes...
Jumping over to Oslo, Wallace complained that, in the U.S., his speeches were ignored or scanted. Said he: "I broke through that silken curtain by coming to Europe. It was worth the trip...
Behind the silken curtain, indignation changed to indifference. Dr. Gallup's pollsters found that Wallace's following among Democrats had dropped from 24% a year ago to a lowly 9%. Boomed Senator Arthur Vandenberg: "I am not interested in itinerant saboteurs...