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...still a secret last week, though a poorly kept one. Long before the official cablegram arrived from Pittsburgh, friends rushed into Madrid's swank new Café Fuentelarreyna to blurt the news to Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes: The picture he had finished so quickly that he had had no time to varnish it before shipping it to the U. S. last August, had just won the $1,000 first prize at the 33rd Carnegie International show. It was no less exciting news in Pittsburgh, where Carnegie directors have long had a fondness for modern Spanish painting, have...
Divorced, Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Corp., $100,000,000 investment trust; by Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, president of Atlas Corp.'s swank Fifth Avenue department store, Bonwit Teller; in Minden, Nev. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Three days before her decree was granted in Nevada, Bonwit Teller gave a party for Mrs. Odium in Manhattan, to celebrate her first year as store-head...
...President's return from "a short vacation." But in many a city many a preacher made public his reply even before the Presidential vacation began, and not all replies were characterized by pastoral calm. Most peppery comeback was released by Dr. David M. Steele, rector emeritus of swank Episcopal Church of St. Luke & the Epiphany in rich, Republican Philadelphia. His windup: "The only help I can render you or the American people is to vote for the next Republican candidate who, by the grace of God, shall be nominated...
...Angeles. Though he rated as the Senate's foremost frequenter of night clubs, spry, fun-loving old Senator McAdoo was not one to enjoy single life. Social Washington was fully prepared to see him marry one of the gay young women with whom he often danced at the swank Shoreham Hotel. But it was vastly surprised to learn one day last week that Senator McAdoo, on the eve of the golden anniversary of his first wedding, was about to marry one Doris Cross, 24. Miss Cross had entered Senator McAdoo's California home as a nurse shortly after...
...active part, would lend the weight of his presence to the Struggle for Peace. From the railway station H. R. H. was driven to one of the big hotels bordering the Lake of Geneva where he took a bath, ate a hearty breakfast, sallied forth with a group of swank friends to do a little shopping. Then the Prince vexed the peace devotees of Geneva by getting aboard his special train, chuffing off to Budapest...