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Lucius Beebe, whose sartorial sharpness is the despair of other Manhattan fancy-dressers, got caught with his spats down in Colorado. Returning from a dusty tour of the Pike's Peak country, he started confidently toward a table in Colorado Springs' swank Broadmoor Hotel, was briskly stopped by the headwaiter. The management's firm attitude: Columnist Beebe, in riding clothes, was not suitably dressed for hotel dining...
...Chicago's swank Fourth Presbyterian Church this Easter, worshipers will hear music by Composers Cesar Franck, the late Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sir Edward Bairstow, a widely-recognized English contemporary...
...Graven Image, a down-at-heels Har-vardman, member of the swank Porcellian Club, begs for a Washington job from the brainy Under Secretary who had been snubbed by Porcellians in college. He gets along fine, is promised the job, then spoils everything by expansively recalling college-club days. "Fellows like you," he bumbles, "you never would have made it in a thousand years." In Radio, a husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says...
...Fascists only Dino Alfieri, once Italian propaganda minister and ambassador to Berlin, shunned the Roman revels at the Palace Hotel. He preferred his own serious set at the swank Golf & Sport Hotel at Crans-sur-Sierre. For Alfieri was talking about forming a new political party, still dreaming about returning to Italy. Count Volpi shook his head...
...Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string of 13 hotels (including Manhattan's Plaza and Roosevelt, and Los Angeles' swank Town House...