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...farm at Churt, Surrey is but part of his credentials as Food expert: he revealed last week that he faced (and averted) a moment in 1917 "when we were within three weeks of having no bread in the country." Last week, speaking at a luncheon in London's swank Dorchester Hotel, he cried: "I have one message. It is essential that the nation's food be guaranteed for a long war. If you want a short war, you must be prepared for a long one. Better a long war than a mean...
...night last week the 1940 crop of 196 top-ranking British debutantes, all of whom would have liked to have stuck Prince of Wales feathers in their hair and gone to Buckingham Palace, stuck flowers in their hair instead and went to swank Grosvenor House. For this war year there will be no court presentations of debutantes, and-at a loss to London caterers, florists, et al. of $3,000,000-no individual debut balls. It was all done at one whack at the Grosvenor, and it was the biggest social event in London since break...
Hollywood's swank Cocoanut Grove was aflutter with ermine wraps and shimmering gowns as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made its twelfth annual awards. To Robert Donat for his role in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and to Vivien Leigh for her Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind went Oscars signifying the year's best performances by an actor and actress. Nobody was surprised. Academy selections of the best supporting actor and actress met with general approval: 1) Thomas Mitchell, for his whiskey-soaked doctor in Stagecoach; 2) Hattie McDaniel, for her sentimental performance...
...first-night crowd of 12,000 thronged happily through this new Kentucky home. At show's end it will be torn down, erected permanently in a Louisville suburb for sale at $8,250. Designed by Treanor & Fatio, swank Manhattan architectural firm, whose house commissions normally run from $25,000 up, it was the first LIFE house of 1940 to be completed...
Lake County, Ill. includes such swank Chicago suburbs as Highland Park, Lake Forest, Deerfield, Barrington. Its biggest city (pop. 33,499) is Waukegan, chiefly famed as Jack Benny's home town...