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...affair was Paris' biggest and smartest since the liberation. In the refined splendor of the Hotel Ritz garden last week, some 1,500 diplomats and millionaires and their ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Ritz of the Ritz | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

These items are variously sung, brassed and narrated by such entertainers as the Andrews Sisters, Waring's Pennsylvanians, the Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers, and Trigger, the Smartest Horse in the Movies, who looks perfectly capable of reciting the Gettysburg Address but keeps a more discreet silence than his colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Just in case Miss Jokiel hadn't been scared enough, Anthony had persuaded the smartest friend he knew to take the exam in his place (the smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gunfire in Brooklyn | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...future Crimson end coach, 170-pound Elmer Madar is generally considered top dog. Now with Baltimore's professional Colts, Madar is the 1946 Michigan- All-American wingman whom Valpey has called "one of my smartest pupils." Madar spent the past weekend in Ann Arbor, where he and Valpey took in a track meet together...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey May Lure Michigan Grid Coaching Aides Here | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

...smartest thing that Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan ever did was to drop his nightstick and pick up a shillelagh. Shillelagh on his shoulder, an Irish grin on his handsome face, and a fine, free-swinging Irish ballad on his tongue, Phil Regan has been packing them in at the nightclubs, and attracting the kind of admirers who can help a man when he wants a little help. One night last week, he had to do two shows in two different Chicago hotels, and to get between them had to race his long, grey convertible back & forth through Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: That Old Shillelagh | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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