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...Socièté des Quarante et Huit Chevaux is the fun-loving, hot-footing, fanny-pinching, hose-squirting, town-wrecking branch of the American Legion. Commonly known as the 40 & 8 Society, it took its name from the French boxcars used to transport U.S. doughboys to the Western Front in World War I. The boxcars could hold 40 men or eight horses, but the 40 & 8 Society is more exclusive: along with horses, it bars nonwhite men (except for American Indians...
...shock was not confined to Spain alone. Last week Franco's police arrested two Swiss bankers, one of whom is Joseph Rivera, Geneva director of the Société de Banque Suisse, the other a top, unnamed official of the Union de Banques Suisse. For Switzerland, whose banks have for so long prospered in peace or war (other people's wars) on the secret accounts of the high and mighty, Franco's arrest of Swiss bankers was a rude and unexpected blow. Said an official of Société de Banque Suisse: "We are taking...
Impresario-Composer Marcel Landowski* has turned the trick largely by carrying a big opera orchestra (the excellent ensemble of Paris' Société des Concerts du Conservatoire) around with him on a tape machine...
...favorite pastel blue; and the municipality of Paris will crack open an ancient bottle of cognac. There will be-among heaps of succulent goodies at every turn-a seven-layered, 72-lb. cake on a bed of crimson candy roses from the pastry cooks and confectioners of the Société de la Saint-Michel. And for the visiting Queen's own very private use, there will be a single crystal flagon of perfume concocted with the help of the most sensitive nostrils in France as an "homage from the French Perfumers to Her Majesty Elizabeth...
...Yourself Kit. The Dental Soci ety has spent -$150,000 gathering dossiers on 137 labs which, it estimates, have done a $9,000,000 annual business. This year it won an injunction in Superior Court, for bidding 19 of the labs to take impressions or do major repairs except under the supervision of a dentist. In the Illinois Supreme Court last week, lawyers argued the case on appeal. The defendants contended that the law would force them out of business and thus unconstitutionally deprive them of their means of livelihood...