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Like most Mexican men of affairs, he has scant time for social life. Unlike most, he is at work at 9 a.m., but typically takes long business lunches lasting from 2:30 till 5, usually at the swank Bankers' Club. Also typically, he works late, often until...
Meanwhile, in Paris, the swank Normandie Theater on the Champs Elysées was the scene of the biggest cinematic hullabaloo since the opening there of Hollywood's Air Force. The occasion: the first night of Ivan, Part I. Outside, would-be spectators created mob scenes comparable to those in Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World. Inside, however, the audience was sharply divided. Parisian sophisticates, perhaps not yet grown up to Eisenstein's post-sophisticated refurbishing of primordial cinema devices, booed and stomped and hissed at the all but Shakespearean intensity of the great static...
Last week Czechoslovakia's playboy Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk answered a toast to the "United Nations" at a swank London lunch by warning his colleagues against "too many cocktail parties." To an acquaintance, Masaryk commented: "Coming from me, that sounds pretty funny...
Eight war-rusty U.S. players and four Canadians paired off last week at Manhattan's swank Racquet & Tennis Club for the first National Doubles Championships since 1941. Everybody's footwork and timing was off. But prewar champion Bobby Grant was still one of the most paralyzing hitters the game had ever known. Teamed with Clarence Pell Jr., he whacked shots that nobody even saw until too late, won easily from Richard Leonard and Joe Brooks (see cut) in the finals...
...This" was the collective bargaining between Ford and the U.A.W. While bitter strikes spread across the nation, Ford negotiations had gone on almost unnoticed in an atmosphere of tense, tightfisted, but good-humored bargaining. Next morning Bugas and Leonard, trailed by aides, hustled into Detroit's swank Hotel Book-Cadillac and secreted themselves in the Ford suite on the eighth floor...