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...submarine base at swank Mar del Plata, fishermen trolled through the wintry, misty Argentine dawn. Out of the grey murk loomed the bulk of a big sub marine. Its engines silent, it rolled gently with the waves. The fishermen noted the craft's unfamiliar lines, went right on fishing...
...waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
Shirley Temple, now 17, who has been growing up in public since she was three and a half, passed another milestone-graduation from high school (Los Angeles' swank Westlake School for Girls...
...summer bachelor since his wife and daughter went back to Independence, Harry Truman took two nights off for stag parties. He attended a dinner for his old friend Leslie L. ("Biff") Biffle, secretary of the Senate, and went out to Washington's swank Burning Tree Country Club, where he was initiated as the club's newest member. Over the weekend he cruised down the Potomac...
...Rockefeller Jr., who had admired Fosdick's fight, offered him the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Fosdick accepted- with conditions. The church must: 1) no longer require immersion; 2) grant membership to all Christians, regardless of creed; 3) build a new church in a less swank district; 4) pay the minister no more than $5,000. (Later, when the pressure of church work began to cut down his out side income, his salary was boosted close...