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...Molotov." From the United Nations building to the United Press, the Stork Club to Harlem, one thing that most impressed the Russians was the lavishness of U.S. newspapers and magazines. Apparently recalling the skimpy Moscow papers, Polevoy marveled that Americans in a single week can turn out "magazines as thick as mattresses." (Jolly Journalist Sofronov was introduced on one occasion as "the thickest editor of a thin magazine in Russia...
Connoisseur. In Ravenna. Ohio, after he had been sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $150. Moonshiner Melvin Stork admitted that he was his own best customer, confided, "It's pretty good stuff, Judge...
...Christmas spirit. When a photographer approached to take his picture, Veteran Actor Charles Coburn turned to a debutante. "Here," he said, "hold my cigar." Then he twinkled at the camera through his monocle. By 3 a.m., nearly all the young folks had gone off to El Morocco or the Stork Club for some serious dancing, and the last fathers, having signed the last chits, were wearily making their way to their limousines and taxis...
Marriage Revealed. Barbara Billingsley, 18, daughter of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley; and John Rogers Christoffers, 28, commercial photographer; in Folkston, Ga., on Nov. 29, after her father had reported her as a missing person...
...Nevada's biggest weekly (circ. 4,900) and proudly bills itself as "Mark Twain's Newspaper" in memory of the two years Twain spent on it as reporter, city editor and publisher. But Twain would hardly recognize his old sheet today with its florid ads for the Stork Club, Rolls-Royces, and Chicago's Pump Room, despite the lavish use of type left over from the Gay Nineties...