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Early last year Louise Peete, now middleaged, full-bosomed, and addicted to strange hats, began keeping house in swank Pacific Palisades for mentally-ailing Arthur C. Logan, and his real-estate-broker wife, Margaret. Tremulously, she confided her past to the Logans. Far from firing her, they took her to their hearts. When she married a 67-year-old bank messenger named Lee Borden Jud son, they insisted that she bring him into the family circle...
...British distiller and amateur horseman, famed for his loud check suits, curly-brimmed hats, perennial mauve carnation boutonnieres (two a day, four on Sundays, 39,000 in 47 years); in his partially blitzed London home. He loudly deplored the modern hatless, sweatered riders seen on Hyde Park's swank Rotten Row bridle path ("Hottentots!"), once launched a short-lived campaign to endow lectures on riding etiquette...
...Down the swank Avenida Alvear marched two blue-uniformed police. Of all improbable places, they stopped at the home of Sr. Federico (Fritz) Mandl, Austrian-born, Argentine-naturalized munitions magnate, arrested him "by order of the President," and whisked him off to Buenos Aires' gloomy Grenadier's Barracks. Simultaneously, the Government decreed the expropriation of IMPA, Mandl's ambitious arms factory. It was the most astonishing event in Argentina's busy week...
Last December Elva walked into Kansas City's swank Harzfeld's store, charmed a clerk into selling her nearly $300 worth of clothes on someone else's charge account. By the time the fraud was discovered, Elva had gone back to the campus at Lawrence, distributed a good bit of the stuff as Christmas presents to friends, and settled down with her new clothes to enjoy a new popularity...
Divorced. Sidney B. Wood Jr., 33, youngest Wimbledon tennis champion in history (19 in 1931), ex-Davis Cup star, now co-owner (with Tennist Don Budge) of a swank Manhattan laundry; by Edith Betts Wood, 33, New York socialite; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Phoenix, Ariz...