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That night silver-haired Under Secretary Edward R. Stettinius Jr., head of the U.S. delegation, entertained at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel. The menu: broiled chicken, peach ice cream, California wines. Next day: high tea at Blair House. Each day the delegates rode out to Dumbarton Oaks in Army cars for a two-hour morning session and another two-hour grind in the afternoon...
Some of London's war annoyances had vanished. There was no longer a rush on restaurants: too much glass about. At the swank ones the well-heeled Londoner or American no longer needed a day-ahead reservation. If it was glass-fronted, tables were begging for diners...
...Izmir, departing German diplomats burned so many papers that they set fire to the consulate. As the Germans had locked themselves in for privacy, the firemen found themselves locked out. Ankara's swank Karpic Restaurant was the scene of an embarrassing incident. Just as slick German Ambassador (and Spy-Master) Franz von Papen entered, the orchestra was beating out Pistol Packin-Mama. With truly Turkish tact, it slid with few fumbles into the Merry Widow Waltz...
Mexico's famed muralist Diego Rivera, who recently decorated the walls of Mexico City's swank Ciro's nightclub with luscious, careless, postcardish nudes, stayed away from the Picasso opening. But he had an anti-Picasso blast ready for the first reporter who came his way. Roared he: "The Society's role is clear: to serve those trying to preserve European cultural . . . domination. . . . Behind this show are dealers. . . . This is proved by the fact that [the Society's] activities were begun with a non-American artist of overwhelming prestige...
...teens Peter slaved in a steelworks. When World War I started he tried to get into a swank cadet school, was rejected when his father turned out to be an enemy alien (British). Embittered Peter set himself to learn the tricks of wartime Vienna's black market. By war's end he was leading a flourishing double life-as a respectable clerk in the steelworks anda gambler in foreign-currency exchange. The world, he reflects as the story ends, had challenged him to survive...