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While a five-hour debate raged in Parliament, eight of the Sultans prepared to leave for London to protest in person. A ninth, the fabulous, 72-year-old ex-playboy Sultan of Johore was already there, leading the fight from a swank suite in Grosvenor House. Gone were the days when British officials used to remove him (for his own good) from Singapore nightspots at 10 p.m.; now he was telling the British where to head...
...trust, used its cash to buy property cheap. In five years they controlled $30,000,000 worth of real estate, including Cambridge's Hotel Continental, which they bought at auction. They liked this taste of the hotel business. So in 1939 they bought control of Boston's swank Copley Plaza and Sheraton, both of which were losing money. Henderson admitted that he was not an expert on the hotel business, allowed his managers almost complete freedom. Both hotels, aided by the burgeoning war boom, housing shortages, lost no time moving into the black...
Between mouthfuls of toast and coffee the Kollmars broadcast from their swank 16-room Park Avenue apartment. They munch over the Times, books, hats, recipes, the theater, Broadway folk. Dorothy glides from chat into commercial as easily as into a housecoat. Dick gets his words in edgewise...
...woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
...items on all shopping lists were hats. This year they were big, beflowered, befeathered (see cut), and they cost a pretty penny. Boston's swank C. Crawford Hollidge, Ltd. did a rush business on ostrich-plumed jobs at $65. Chicago's Bes-Ben sold all the floppy, fancy tuscan straws it could turn out at $52.75 and up. "Mmmm, but you'll look delicious," burbled Manhattan's Arnold Constable over a "high-crown cartwheel . . . with pastel blooms encased in spun, sugary net," all for $45. Macy's offered an open-crowned straw loaded with daisies...