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Afterward in his private car King Edward and his aching leg muscles reached London early, drove not to St. James's Palace but to Mayfair's swank Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street where almost every employe is his oldtime friend. Calling to them: "Good morning! Good morning!" the Sovereign bathed Turkishly for 90 minutes, emerged daisy-fresh to find Jermyn Street almost obstructed by a curious throng of his subjects who cheered as his United-Kingdom-built car drove...
With the business centres of Tokyo, the cream of the swank embassy district and an increasing number of Japanese public buildings in their hands, the young Army mustards did not swagger, did not strut. Their informal eating and drinking place was soon the Sanno Hotel. When a white correspondent asked daringly if he might come in and look around, a mustard sergeant nodded and smiled, "Certainly. I regret that you cannot book a room, however...
Background of the pepper case was as dizzy as any U. S. dance of corporate dummies. Between Garabed Bishirgian's barren birthplace and his swank mansion in London's Park Lane lay a speculative trail that included caviar, tin and Turk ish rugs. By reputation his "only god was a rising share," though on week ends he was devoted to his 600 pigs on his model farm in Surrey. His lavish stag parties were the talk of the City...
Favored by the ladies and their boys as leading aircraft-armaments stocks are Rolls-Royce, Fairey and Hawker-Siddeley. Last week Rolls-Royce was so preoccupied with producing aircraft engines that swank motorists eager to plank down ?1,850 ($9,250) for the new 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce "Phantom III" were told that they cannot expect delivery before February...
Baroque, Ltd., swank London wholesalers, made a daring move by so timing their show of women's fashions that as the Bachelor King reached their display a seven-piece orchestra struck up Bach's Air For G-String, and a troupe of mannequins advanced in the formation known professionally as a "Pink Wedding Ensemble...