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Over the room-temperature burgundy and the chopped chicken liver, politics came to Hollywood. As the battle began, the right wing took up prepared positions at the swank Beverly-Wilshire Hotel. The left strung its forces along rows of white-clothed tables at the equally swank palm-studded Beverly Hills Hotel, three miles away. Then the giants fired deadly after-dinner speeches at each other...
Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton came home last week, feeling fighting fit and in a fighting mood. Officially because of ill health, Canada's first soldier had been retired from command of the Canadian Army overseas. When reporters saw him at Quebec's swank Seigniory Club he looked in the pink. Said he: "There is nothing wrong with me. . . . It will be up to those who made statements about my health to explain them...
Bars, Rings and Golf Courses. In their lighter moments they build swank officers' messes in the deep jungles with handsome bars and flagged terraces (to the envy of the hard-living Army). In the South Pacific they laid out golf courses, constructed baseball diamonds, volleyball courts and movie amphitheaters. On Tulagi, Chief Machinist Mate Bernard M. Vinck hung out three coconuts for a pawnshop sign, began making "Tulagi Academy" rings, like the cherished Naval Academy rings-except that Vinck's were snail shell "cat's eyes" set in aluminum stripped from shot-down Jap planes...
...Stampedes. Nonetheless the U.S. public responded to the shortages with 1) extreme patience; 2) a dogged determination to buy something-for a good deal more money than usual-come hell or no help in the nation's overcrowded stores. In Manhattan, swank Saks Fifth Avenue stayed open three Thursday nights in a row, "practically by request," and reported that customers packing breathlessly into their usually roomy elevators had been heard to exclaim: "Gee, this is just like Macy's." But Macy's, which seemed to contain most of Greater New York's population, calmly took...
...four, Roismann and Kroyt, are married; three have homes in Washington. The fourth, Alexander Schneider, keeps a bachelor apartment on Manhattan's swank Beekman Place. He cooks, makes pottery and prefers blondes...