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They had had a day of enthusiastic politicking: a business session in the morning, an informal lunch, a closed session in the afternoon. Then they all went over to the swank Sulgrave Club, where Chairman Reece (standing with his wife in the receiving line) pump-handled the visiting firemen: Connecticut's hand some new Representative John Davis Lodge and wife (onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti); retiring liaison man John Danaher; Indiana's Charles Halleck, probably next House majority leader; and all the other GOPsters from far & near who put up the cash and get out the vote...
Carlos Vial, president of the potent Banco Sudamericano and one of Chile's biggest bullmarket operators, tracked down Wachholtz in swank Viña del Mar and in the presence of President González, was said to have accused him of playing bear and speculating on the market drop. Husky Minister Wachholtz swung on Vial, knocked out two teeth. Last week Vial sued for "grave lesions" to his person; Wachholtz sued also-for defamation and injury by publicity...
Sometimes the Americans met and played tennis with upper-class Haitians at the swank Turgeau Club. And businessmen with a stake in Haitian foreign trade watched closely last week as President Dumarsais Estime dropped nationalist leaders from his Cabinet. But mostly the escapists lived far above and remote from the impoverished millions of the black republic. Their chief worry: that other Americans would come to Haiti, run up prices, put an end to paradise...
...Moscow is as strong as anywhere in Finland, which I found in extremely critical condition. The food situation is so bad that restaurants in small towns have only two items on the bill of fare: pea soup and boiled potatoes. Coffee and sugar are practically unheard of even in swank black-market restaurants. Clothing is made from wood pulp, liquor (schnapps) is distilled from wood alcohol, most automobiles are woodburning...
High Prices. The merchandiser who promulgated this piece of business iconoclasm is Eversharp President Martin L. Straus II, 50, who works as smoothly as a ball bearing in his new empire. (His office is in his apartment in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel.) Things were not always thus. In 1929, as head of Chicago's Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co., he saw it go broke in the depression, learned that low prices alone were not enough to make people buy. In 1939 he teamed up with Ralph A. Bard (later Under Secretary of the Navy...