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...bought everything. With money jingling in their pockets, they swarmed up to the counters; they said wrap it up before they asked the price. In Cleveland, employes of Lincoln Electric Co. got bonuses averaging $3,000. In Beverly Hills, an uppity dowager surveyed the crowd in Saks's swank shop, asked: "Who are all these people?" Cracked the salesgirl: "They're cash customers...
Salvador Dali was last week living in the swank Del Monte Hotel in Del Monte, Calif. He said he had breakfast at 7:30, lunch at 12:45, dinner at 8, played chess with Mrs. Dali after dinner. Most of the time he spent in his hotel room...
...finishing off his eleventh annual engagement at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. His latest Hollywood musical, You Were Never Lovelier (starring onetime Cugat Dancer Rita Cansino, now known as Rita Hayworth), had just finished its second hit week on Broadway. The rumba business was booming loudly...
...Yale law enrollment is off from 375 to 105; its swank Gothic law dormitories have largely been taken over by Yale undergraduates...
...developed a team that will take its place with consistently powerful squads that are turned out year after year on the banks of the Hudson. Every fall Marchand builds a dangerous outfit out of a few stars and this year the standouts are goalie Bob Crain, center half Larry Swank, and wing Bob Mathe...