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...swank Mayfair shops, "National Topcoat Week" followed "National Fur Week" and autumn buying continued brisk. Enough timid shoppers stay at home to have doubled the business of London mail-order firms since break of World War II, but a daily tide of some 5,000 shoppers and window-gazers flowed down Oxford Street last week. Most ignored air-raid alarms until German bombers were actually overhead and they dawdled and browsed over displays of goods ticketed "For Christmas," in no hurry to pick out presents. Outside famed Peter Robinson's, housewives queued up in a long line...
This year Endicott Peabody, 83, retired as headmaster of Groton. Last week Rosemary Hall celebrated its 50th anniversary. Between those two events there was more than a timely connection. Like swank Groton, Rosemary Hall, a swank girls' school in leafy Greenwich, Conn., has been ruled from its beginning by one person. And like Groton's Peabody, Rosemary's Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece) is in a class by herself among U. S. headmistresses...
...night, week in, week out. For U. S. audiences, the commentator was big, beefy Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent for Collier's weekly, whose favorite vantage point for watching air raids was the unsheltered roof of his apartment building (Lansdowne House, renamed "Arson House") in London's swank Berkeley Square. Of all the tough U. S. writers covering the Battle of Britain, "Quent" Reynolds was close to the toughest, yet in a letter printed in Variety last week he said: ". . . You can only make all this London business exciting if you haven't been here...
...they formed the largest selling syndicate in Wall Street history: 142 underwriters (who put up the money), 506 dealers (who took the bonds in lots as small as one each). Last week, after spending two days in Manhattan's swank Plaza hotel oiling and firing the starting gun, Utilityman Bauer was on the way back to his unpretentious home in Pasadena (via New Orleans because over-mountain trips sicken his wife). He was happy. Well over 90% of his bonds are sold; underwriters expect to have empty shelves by week's end. Better still, he had once more...
Last week Barney Josephson opened an uptown branch of Café Society, smack in the heart of the swank East Side, next door to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. On the nightclub's two-story-high walls. Artist Anton Refregier painted soft-toned satirical murals...