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Founder of the League two years ago was a tall, gaunt Anglican, Rev. Wallace Harold Elliott, 54, vicar of swank St. Michael's Church in London. Vicar Elliott is England's most famed "Radio Parson," has been longer on the British air-seven and a half years-than any other churchman. His League, however, did not begin piling up memberships until he, another Anglican, a Baptist and a Congregationalist vowed themselves to Peace at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Westminster Abbey last Armistice Day. Then, like other Englishmen with a cause in their hearts, they wrote...
...Manhattan last week, having had as much advance publicity as Ringling Bros., Salvador Dali's new exhibition drew crowds that made the swank Julien Levy Gallery surge and prattle like the Normandie at sailing time. In the first five days sales totaled five drawings ($300-$800) and 14 paintings...
STRAWSTACK-Dorothy Cameron Disney-Random House ($2). A conservative Vermont spinster buys a swank Maryland farm, regrets it when she finds herself involved in three horrible murders. Cleverly-constructed story in the Mary Roberts Rinehart tradition...
...tricking her into being sterilized, allowed the suit to languish because "no matter what she is, she's still my mother." Next year she married Ronald Gay, onetime automobile mechanic, lived with him a few months, sued him for divorce. Recently she has been living at El Cortez, swank San Francisco apartment hotel, under the name of Mrs. Howell. Last fall she bleached her hair platinum, left for fun in Miami, returned fortnight ago for her final decree from Mechanic Gay. When she got it, she promptly married Mr. Bradstreet, a onetime bartender, took him honeymooning in her yellow...
Stephens Junior College in Columbia, Mo. is a "progressive" finishing school, attended by the daughters of well-to-do doctors, lawyers, diplomats, Army and Navy officers. Less costly ($950 a year) and less swank than such Eastern schools as Miss Porter's (Farmington) or Foxcroft, Stephens nevertheless has luxurious dormitories. a stable of 36 horses, a country club and other necessary equipment for turning out elegant young ladies. But fertile-brained James Madison ("Daddy") Wood, Stephens' president, believes that elegance is not enough. Eighteen years ago he hired an expert to find out what women do besides being...