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...Puccini was no stranger to Broadway. He borrowed from Belasco plays for Madama Butterfly and The Girl of the Golden West...
Before the war, Bob Lovett was a Wall Street businessman (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.) and director of several banks, railroads and insurance companies. No stranger to Europe, he used to spend an average of two months a year there on business. When he left Washington and the War Department in December 1945, he returned to Wall Street. This week he was vacationing in Hobe Sound...
...Dark Stranger. In Brooklyn, a seeress accepted a $1 fee, cheerfully assured her customer that his troubles were over, realized too late that her own were just beginning when the customer showed his badge, hauled her in to pay a $100 fine for fortune telling...
...refuge from these storms in the sparkling new Galerie des Carets. There hung the paintings of a man whom some conservative critics have come to prefer to Picasso. He was monkish old Georges Rouault, whose fat, smoldering judges, jeweled kings, whores, clowns and solitary Christs grow richer and stranger year by year. They looked not like paint but hot coals, caked angrily into patterns by a muscle-bound man with a trowel...
Additional "information" supplied by the stranger was that Gardiner was staying at the Hotel Dixle. A quick call by his father showed that no Sylvester Gardiner was registered...