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...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Brüning and appoint Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was universally ascribed to swank Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, a model officer of the Imperial Army type, his bullet head fashionably clipped...
Porcellian ("Pork") Club, oldest (1790) of Harvard's "finals," was founded by undergraduates who sat around talking literature and eating roast pig (porcellus). Its reputation springs from the wealth and social swank of its membership which has included Holmeses, Lowells, Belmonts, Adamses, Roosevelts, Bonapartes, Carrolls, Lodges. Its club house on Massachusets Avenue overlooks the Yard. Porcellian's favorite beverage was Golden Gate, a concoction of equal parts of gin and beer. At club dinners all members must be primed to sing solo...
...should like to correct a statement made in the section on music in your issue of April 4. You mention a phonograph record of Mlle. Lucienne Boyer, and say that "Parisians go to the swank Monseigneur to hear her sing" or something of the sort...
...pilots of Century Air Lines quit (they charged a "lock-out") and service was interrupted until a "strikebreaking" crew was trained. By the sale to Avco a complete operating personnel of 350 is thrown out of work. Last week, in his apartment in the tower of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Cord intimated that the pilots (about 50 including Century Pacific's) would be "taken care of" with "perhaps several months...
...London this winter, the bright young people of Mayfair danced nightly to "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "You're Blase," smart tunes made right in London. In Paris, people go to swank Monseigneur especially to hear Lucienne Boyer sing "Parlez-Moi d'Amour," a.soft, fragile French song. In Berlin Tenor Richard Tauber, the monocle man. is making "Du bist mein Traum" a worthy successor to "Dein ist mein Ganzes Herz...