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With American food, plumbing, friends, and slang, the staff confounds the staid Englishman who still considers his American cousins a little queer...
Last Thursday, at 5:08 p.m., bedlam broke loose in Brooklyn. Staid citizens dashed out of their homes and shops, yelling "We're in, we're in!" Housewives stood on their stoops, beating dishpans; kids tooted tin horns; barkeeps opened their taps, "set 'em up on the house...
...named William Connor, who writes for the London Daily Mirror under the pseudonym "Cassandra," sharpened his Celtic fangs last fortnight, grabbed a BBC mike, and proceeded to chew up Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, who now broadcasts out of Berlin for Goebbels & Co. (TIME, July 7, 14). Strange stuff for staid old BBC were his scarifying comments...
...what Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was wearing for Easter, they read with distress that she had forgotten what it was, except that the hat was "non-standardized." Last week the question was answered. In Manhattan Mrs. Roosevelt emerged from a final fitting at Arnold Constable's in a staid ensemble of neon purple and violet, a purple hat (see cut). - Soon after dimpled, 35-year-old Tobacco Scion Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr. lent Democratic campaign committees some $300,000 last year, he found himself treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Last week Neophyte Reynolds' political career advanced another...
Almost as infallible as the perennial crocus, "Blossom Time" has bloomed again. And the Shuberts' latest edition of this old dependable lacks little of the sure-fire appeal with which it has warmed up staid Bostonians seven times in the last twenty years. The colorful costumes, glittering jewelry, chic frock coats and top hats, tinkling wine glasses and gay laughter are all there--set to melodies the world hasn't forgotten in 120 years, and isn't likely to in another thousand...