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...week a Coast Guard troupe of 67 enlisted men & women played a four-a-day musical show called Tars and Spars in Vancouver's Beacon Theater. On Sunday the cast, including its bright particular star, Chief Boatswain's Mate Victor Mature,* lunched at the swank Capitano Country Club. Later a new, 85-ft. Canadian Navy tug stood by to take everybody for a joy ride. Chief Mature and most of the troupe pleaded other engagements. Sixteen SPARS and five tars accepted...
...party pressure really started on Inauguration Day. A few hours after he had unassumingly assumed office and had been told by his mother, "Now, you behave yourself," the V.P., in a neat, dark blue double-breasted suit, set off for a round of receptions. He went to the swank Federal Room of the Statler Hotel, to the Shoreham, to the home of a friend. Sunday, it was the Statler again...
Katherine Dunham, rhythmic Negro choreographer (Tropical Revue), stepped high into Manhattan's swank East Seventies, bought a $200,000, 30-room mansion which she will turn into a dancing school. Neighbors in the same block: the Frick museum and a Vanderbilt town house...
Correspondents wondered why King Peter of Yugoslavia had been bouncing in & out of London's swank Claridge's. He was calling on his uncle-in-law, King George of Greece. In the royal Greek suite, the young King, whose people do not want him, and the old King, whose people do not want him either, discussed an urgent problem: how to keep their crowns from blowing off in the high wind of history...
Reynolds got into the Mexican trade when he took a vacation last August, after 14 successful years in Chicago, manufacturing printing presses. He rented a comfortable house from the swank Mexico City Country Club, planned a lazy year. The plan for rest went the American way after a few weeks: he met a Mexican businessman whose small factory was producing 50 lighters...