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Widely advertised as a magazine that would "take the story beyond what may have been printed in the newspapers," Topic emerged mostly as a creditable hash of what had already been printed in the daily press. Its cover carried a four-color photograph of Princess Margaret with the caption, STORK OVER SNOWDON. Inside, together with a 3,000-word account of the royal pregnancy (she is putting on more weight than her physicians probably approve, betrays an insatiable appetite for beef), Topic readers found the news cub-byholed under such section headings as "Britain's Week," "World Week," "Travel...
...instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose, and Tennessee Williams, and William Inge. The word shot quickly over the mink-line to the Stork's Cub Room, El Morocco and the Harwyn Club. Inside of just a few weeks, virtually everybody who is anybody in café society had snapped up the Peppermint like a brand-new charity...
...balding man of 55 who looked more like a bank clerk than a butcher: a thin mouth between protruding ears, a long, narrow nose, deep set blue eyes, a high, often wrinkled brow. He looked puny beside two burly,, blue clad Israeli policemen. When he stood, he resembled a stork more than a soldier...
...Packard claimed, view the population with unadulterated . Every newborn child is an-customer. But, the new customers some people that "pollute the air up the beaches." Commercial has obscured this obvious , he asserted. A caption to a advertisement depicting a stork the spirit: "This bird means...
...Knight. The big question was whom to choose to lose to Rockefeller in 1962. (The most hopeful Democrats doubt that Rocky's lead can be cut below 250,000.) Front-running candidate was Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.-if he could ever live down his reputation as 1) a Stork Club playboy, 2) a lackluster candidate who lost by 173,000 votes when he ran for state attorney general in 1954, and 3) a lawyer who once accepted a fee from Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo...