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Under the Instep, No Count. Frequently, Fabian made flimsy clues pay big detection dividends. He once flushed a bogus count bent on marrying a U.S. heiress by noting that his shoes had not been polished under the instep, as they would have been had the "count" stayed in swank hotels. Another time Fabian solved a jewel-shop robbery largely because it had been observed that the thief wore a tropical suit and, as he left the scene, cursed a bystander in Arabic. After ferreting out further details from jewel fences, Fabian nabbed a discharged member of the Palestine police force...
...rough-and-ready type . . . He's eagerly sought after by right-wing Republican dowagers . . . Joe may need a little breaking-in, however . . . We know a lady interior decorator who quit her job for a millionaire Representative because every time she called on the client at his swank Foxhall Road estate, Joe was slouched on the davenport with feet on a priceless antique coffee table...
...willing to offend either womankind or Ethnos, one of its biggest supporters, so the Miss Greece finals went on last week as scheduled. Shiny lines of Buicks and Cadillacs brought 700 VIPs (including ex-Premiers Sophocles Venizelos, Constantine Tsaldaris and a dozen Cabinet or ex-Cabinet ministers) to the swank, open-air Argentina Club, by the waterfront at Phaleron Bay. Admission charge: $9 a head (drinks extra). Eleven finalists paraded, first in bathing suits, then in evening gowns. Outside the club, 200 policemen waited in their squad cars for something more exciting to happen. It soon...
...swank galleries on Manhattan's East 57th Street, the art season was almost over, but across the U.S. it was just beginning. Three U.S. cities were staging big spring exhibits-gay art picnics for all the folks...
...Corp.. though he recommended approval of the loan and resigned from RFC on the day the loan was granted (to become a Lustron executive). Young and his wife (who wore the Truman Administration's original mink coat when she was a White House stenographer) now operate a swank Florida motel known to its clientele as "the Royal Pastel Mink Auto Court...