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...books. When he decided few months ago to make a career for himself in politics, leaders of Philadelphia's Republican machine warmly welcomed a young man with so potent a name, so fat a pocketbook. Candidate Penrose, who owns a 125-acre estate on the Main Line at swank Devon where he takes his own and neighbors' small children for rides on his mile-long miniature railroad (see cut), promptly established a residence in Philadelphia by renting an apartment, the address of which he is constantly forgetting.- "My platform," he announced in fastidious Bostonese, "will be the Horse...
While British taxpayers were aching last week over the simple fact that increased armaments must be paid for (see above), Britain's Secretary of War. swank young Alfred Duff Cooper, jumped from the desk on which he keeps a mask of his famed actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, hustled down to Manchester. There he spoke his mind about the leaders of the Established Church of England in Manchester's Free Trade Hall...
...reports that he possessed only one speech and no evening clothes, Smith Wildman Brookhart went to the U. S. Senate as a bull-shouldered, thick-skinned representative of Iowa. Both reports proved correct. His speech was an impassioned attack on the Interests, the Railroads, the Wets. His dress at swank Washington parties was a plain sack suit. His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed two brothers...
...Home Abroad. Last autumn Frank Buchman held a swank revival meeting in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, featuring a prize European convert, President Carl J. Hambro of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). Last winter he and some of his young men sunned themselves in Miami. An active Group headquarters is maintained at Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church (cable address: Apostolic). Not a few U. S. socialites have rallied to the faith of God the Millionaire to make the pleasurable discovery that if their servants were "changed," too, they became much more pleasant and effective. Nevertheless. Pennsylvania's Frank...
...surroundings at Houston's swank River Oaks Country Club were novel. Not so the results. Daniel Hernandez, a freshman at the University of Mexico and his country's newest star, made Grant scramble but the best he got was one set to Grant's three. Esteban Reyes, nicknamed "Pajaro" (Bird), Mexico's No. 1, got five games in three sets against Budge. Next day, Allison played 18 holes of near-par golf, joined his partner Van Ryn to run through Flavio Martinez and Marco Antonio Mestre 6-0, 6-2, went back to the links...