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...according to everybody's expectations, did not survive the third round. This year at Memphis, again medalist in the women's national tournament. Mrs. Page refused to be flustered, stayed calm even through such matches as one in which her opponent after a lusty swing lost her skirt. So last week Mrs. Page met 19-year-old Patty Berg, runner-up to Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare in the national tournament two years ago, in the final...
...favorite creation at the recent Schiaparelli winter opening was a black cocktail dress with shortish skirt, black rose-shaped buttons, a high V neck and lips of bright red floss embroidered on the pockets of the short jacket. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, leader of London's cafe set and onetime friend of the Duke of Windsor, liked it and bought it. So last week did Mrs. Charles Crocker of Manhattan; Mrs. D. J. Sayman of St. Louis; Mrs. Herbert Mavre of Glencoe, Ill.; Mme Alfira de Riglos of Buenos Aires; Mrs. Charles Hanna of Cairo; Mlle Jean Mastbaum of Paris...
...relief of suffering, anywhere at anytime, is a worthy goal; but to dress it up in a costume and use it for skirt behind which to hide political convictions is to use name of charity in vain. Edward F. Whitney...
...from resplendent London after the Coronation, an airplane was to take off late this week and, soaring eastward over the North Sea off the low coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw peninsula and archipelago which separate the North Sea from the Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking...
Finally I went into a church. A baby was being baptised and there was much pouring of oil and singing, and the congregation were dressed in colorful costumes. It was a charming ceremony, until a man dressed in a white skirt and a blue jacket touched me on the shoulder and said: "Hey, Buddy, 'yer an American? I used to work in Brooklyn. Well, well, well...