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Jean puts showmanship into her work. In a realm of slacks, grease-coated sweaters and tin hats, she scrambles up & down hull scaffoldings in swank feminine regalia. In the bedlam where tankers, invasion craft and baby flattops are put together she is "Hiyah, Jeannie" or "Hello, Journal.''' At the Albina yards she got another name-"The Hat." The hat is a high-crowned mink job, which she made herself...
...Cicognani is the personal representative of the Pope to the U.S. Government. He shuns the press, lives quietly in the $1,000,000 Apostolic Delegation on Washington's swank Em bassy...
...edition of Mein Kampf. In World War I he was a sergeant; now he serves on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Cultural Relations. Another great current interest of President Shuster is the college community center, near Hunter's superb, modernistic building on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue. It is the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the united former town houses of President Roosevelt and his mother. Attractively refurnished in what Dr. Shuster calls "B. Altman Empire" style, the center is used by Hunter's social, hobby and religious groups...
Sheep's Clothing. In Manhattan, swank Shirtmaker Clyde offered men's shorts fashioned of a new material: camouflage cloth...
From his home at swank Edgewater Beach Hotel, Candidate Courtney eyed Illinois's rural downstate vote, mapped a campaign that would emphasize his longtime feuding with that old city slicker, Mayor Ed Kelly. There were two minor flaws in this bid for the farm vote. First, Tom Courtney is no bumpkin himself, but the son of a Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced...