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Rightist Spain last week staged an exhibit of captured, foreign-manufactured guns, tanks and airplanes in the sumptuous Grand Kursaal Theatre of San Sebastian, Spain's beautiful Bay of Biscay summer resort. The exhibit showed brand-new, up-to-date arms, including a 1938 Russian anti-aircraft piece, Swedish anti-tank guns, warplanes of Russian and Czechoslovak manufacture...
William Kissam Vanderbilt called it Idle Hour: a 100-room house in Oakdale, Long Island, as sumptuous and showy as a Summer Palace of the Romanovs. Thirty years ago it cost about $7,000,000, but nowadays it is a bit run down. Last week 500 Truth Students, Adepts and Master Metaphysicians twitched on hard chairs in the big reception hall with its encrusted ceiling, ivory-colored fireplace, concealed pipe organ. Above the doors were signs reading "Peace, Discrimination, Enlightenment, Inspiration." James Bernard Schafer, Master Metaphysician, entered...
...visits to the reclaimed Pontine Marshes, Florence, Milan and the northern Italian lakes. Described to the delegates were Dopolavoro's 1,227 theatres in which are given 25,000 performances annually, Saturday matinees with seats selling at 2½, 5? and 10?. The delegates were taken to the sumptuous Dopolavoro clubhouse of the Air Force employes, and to the equally impressive railroaders' Dopolavoro club in Rome: 100 guest bedrooms, a theatre seating 1,500 persons, a library of 7,000 volumes, a restaurant, bar, poolroom, bocci-ball court, gymnasium. Also on view were "Thespis Cars," trucks and trailers...
Back in Washington, he hurried away from the annual dinner tendered him by the "Little Cabinet" (assistant and undersecretaries) at the sumptuous country house of Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, to address the People once again. When he had finished, no one could doubt that Franklin Roosevelt's immediate objectives now are these...
Dapper President Kamal Atatürk, "Father of the Turks," definitely learned last week that a life of ease on a sumptuous superyacht awaited him whenever he felt inclined to leave his pink-tinted villa on the hill above Ankara, and take to Turkish waters. Before the star & crescent could be raised over President-Dictator Kamal Atatürk's gift from his people, however, a diplomatic snarl between the U. S., Germany and Turkey had to be untangled...