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...swank Wolhurst Saddle Club, play-spot of Colorado's mining and cattle men, was raided last week. The invaders were a squad from the War Manpower Commission, who lined up all the employes for questioning, then ordered five-a cook, a watchman, and three attendants-to report to jobs in man-hungry war factories...
...conference room the second session grew so stormy that the Archbishop adjourned the meeting before blows were struck. From the spate of tempestuous talk emerged only one point of unanimity: Archbishop Damaskinos was acceptable to all parties as Regent. But George II of Greece, waiting in London's swank Claridge's, must not delay his consent...
Sidney Hillman, strong boy of U.S. labor and champion of the common man, now visiting London to help make plans for a world trade-union conference in February, bunked in at swank Claridge's Hotel in London, where he found that two of his fellow guests were King George II of Greece, King Peter II of Yugoslavia...
Backstage later Bergen was saying: "I just had to get that off my chest." But he was a hit and he stayed on, until Manhattan's lofty Rainbow Room bought Charlie's raillery. In keeping with this swank setting, McCarthy appeared in top hat & tails. Then Rudy Vallee put him on the air. Bergen had finally found his proper medium of communication: the microphone. Previously, many of Charlie's asides and much of their patter had been lost to the audience. Swift give-and-take (mostly give) is the essence of McCarthy's humor. Now everybody...
Some 350 businessmen from 51 countries met at the swank Westchester Country Club at Rye, N.Y. last week. They were spending an average of about $3,000 each to attend a ten-day meeting of the International Business Conference. For many of the visitors this was their first opportunity since 1939 to compare trade notes with competitors and customers...