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Last week, at the Coq Rouge, swank Manhattan supper club, Bradshaw Crandell's nominee became 1939's official No. 1 Debutante, successor to the glamor crown of last year's Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. Of 300 debutantes asked to rate their choices by the Coq Rouge's pressagent, 95 had answered. They gave Miss Plunkett 72 votes, 20 more than brunette Patricia Suydam, who ran second...
Because a Brussels, Belgium, golfer named King Leopold III once gave U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies a lesson in chip-shots, and a trimming (Davies, 85, Leopold, 69), last week grateful Mr. Davies made the King an honorary member of Washington's swank Burning Tree Golf Club...
...drive an automobile, one of the first to wear breeches and ride astride. In 1909, when she was known as "the best-gowned woman in America" and her name romantically linked with that of Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Eleo caused a stir by appearing at California's swank Burlingame Country Club in "unconventional trousers," asked if she could join in the polo practice of a British international team...
Delegates' biggest headache, which they quickly fell to discussing, was disagreeable publicity. In picture magazines and films there had lately been many a display of fraternities' swank, pranks, necking parties...
...that day tennis has made out of many a young player just what Mr. Hardy howled about. Few top-notch tennis amateurs have the time or inclination to get a full-time job nowadays. While the players of the pre-Tilden era were content with a summer junket to swank Eastern tournaments (and a trip abroad if they were very, very good), most of the present top-notch racketeers have to play tennis nine months out of the year, to keep up with the field...