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When H. L. Mencken called Stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee an ecdysiast* ten years ago, Gypsy (whose finale at the time consisted in dropping her garter belt in the tuba) called Mencken an intellectual snob, accused him bitterly of reading books. Now Gypsy has committed the final act of intellectual snobbery, written a book herself. It is a lurid, witty and highly competent detective story...
...tabloid snob-gossip's dream week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 28, the country's best-known young multimillionaire sportsman, was sued for divorce in New York by Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt (charges: adultery with two corespondents). Said Alfred's mother, Mrs. Margaret Emerson, who has been married four times: "I wouldn't give much for him if he didn't. After all, he's a normal young man and he has been separated from his wife for eight months. He wouldn't be a son of mine if he stopped living." Wept crocodile Hearstling Cholly...
...illness a few weeks ago waged a winning battle against pedagogic dullness in the education of young engineers and scientists; in Cambridge, Mass. For one short week in 1929, "Tubby" became, in his own words, "the most notorious man in America" for advising a graduating class to "be a snob and marry the boss's daughter"; ten years later he reversed himself: "The young man should have married the stenographer. She has a job and the boss's daughter is broke...
Smoked out, Colonel Bingham was unrepentant. "I stand by every word," he said. "Speaking as the perfect snob,* I contend that old army tradition-call it old-school-tie tradition if you like-has much to recommend it. . . . Every army must be run on autocratic, as distinct from democratic, principles." He did not recall that the officers of two of the world's most successful armies, Napoleon's and Hitler's, were almost all recruited from the working classes...
...Snob apparently derives from S. Nob. (Sine Nobilitate), which was appended to names of commoners attending English schools and colleges before the 18th Century, when education was commonly regarded as the prerogative of aristocracy...