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...Army men and Russian political experts were quartered in the turreted Hotel Torni, the plushy Societetshuset and the old Estonian Legation in swank Brunnsparken. They raced around Helsinki in Russian autos. Their boss was smart, rugged Colonel General Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Leningrad's Communist chief and Stalin's heir apparent. In the thick of last week's crisis, General Zhdanov suddenly zoomed off to Moscow, then zoomed back, presumably bringing Stalin's latest word to the Finns. What it might be Finns would soon find...
Hortense McQuarrie Odium, able board chairman and ex-president of Manhattan's swank women's specialty store, Bonwit Teller, ex-wife of Financier Floyd Odium, resigned her chairmanship. Mrs. Odium (who sent sales up from $3,500,000 to $10,000,000 while president) said: "I am not a business woman...
Married. Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, 48, swank-loving, smart-alecking Conservative M.P., who in 1938 claimed half of his estranged wife's $400,000 income, later divorced her for adultery, was blasted for "beachcombing in Honolulu" during the blitz as guest of Doris Duke Cromwell; and Angela Williams, daughter of a British Naval Commander; in London...
...song, and as such might never have traveled far from its native shore, had it not been for a roaming Argentine bandleader named Eugenio Nobile. Nobile had been combing remote districts of South America for years, picking up scraps of primitive music and processing them into tunes for the swank dance halls of Buenos Aires. By last week his adaptation of Santa Marta had broken the sheet-music records of Buenos Aires' Tin Pan Alley...
Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...