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...social event of Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie...
...Loren Batt of SKF Industries, Inc., Treasurer Beardsley Ruml of R. H. Macy & Co. and Chairman W. Averell Harriman of Union Pacific R. R. Dynamic Mr. Batt is an expert on scientific management; jovial Mr. Ruml used to be dean of the social sciences at the University of Chicago; swank Mr. Harriman, long interested in the New Deal, chairmans the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. Last week he flew to Des Moines from his Union Pacific's Sun Valley playground, on Harry Hopkins' advice did not bother to bring his dinner jacket. The one Speaker Hopkins...
...contest held at Palm Beach's swank Colony Club, the leading contender for the title of "Glamor Girl of Palm Beach" was 17-year-old Cobina Wright Jr., Manhattan cafe society songstress. Judges were Photographer Hal Phyfe and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg. After an argument with his fellow judge, Flagg huffed: "I have a vote, but it is not for Miss Cobina Wright. However, I will turn my vote over to Phyfe, and he can make the choice." Phyfe promptly chose Cobina Wright. Next day Illustrator Flagg saw her on the beach in a one-piece bathing suit. Dazzled...
Readers of Ferdinand Lundberg's best-selling America's 60 Families were interested to note in the press that Newport's swank, seaweedy Bailey's Beach, swept clean by September's hurricane, is being revamped. When family applications for the new $1,000 cabanas were added up. the total came to exactly...
Brewster & Co., builders of swank automobile bodies, sued Mrs. Blanche J. Parks, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. newspaper publisher, for $600, balance she owed on a $5,000 body for her Rolls-Royce. Mrs. Parks's reason for not paying up: her escort could not sit in the back seat with his topper...