Word: sportsmans
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...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and their clothes did splendidly in a preview of the first postwar silly season (June to September). A sudden spring tide of pressagents' panegyrations washed them each to glory: the multimillionaire sportsman to a place on the "best-dressed men" list of the Custom Tailors Guild of America; wife Jeanne to a place on the Fashion Academy's "best-dressed women" list. Jeanne, an heiress in her own right,* was one of those the Academy acclaimed for somehow managing to dress well on a budget...
...dapper Sportsman Fred Weiszmann intended to play it safe. Until he learned whether the hitherto apathetic U.S. public would take to soccer, he would stay on as assistant headwaiter at Chicago's popular Wrigley Building restaurant...
Married. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-Henry, 20, well-fixed granddaughter of Sportsman-Socialite-Financier Harry Payne Whitney and Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; and Luis Gabaldoni, 32, Peruvian businessman and vice consul in New York; in Manhattan...
...Argentina) conducted Tannhauser at the Metropolitan Opera House and didn't seem to mind that his first try at Tannhauser fortnight ago had been severely panned ("I never blame the critics because I know my virtues and it does not touch me. I start again like a sportsman...
...runs at an average speed of 606 miles per hour.-In the same type of plane, Eric Greenwood, 38, of the Gloster Aircraft Co. flew nearly as fast. For a while Greenwood thought he had the record. When photographic timing showed him beaten, he was ready with the British sportsman's typical comment: "Really? Good old Willie...