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...Throughout the country, private preparatory schools, with relatively few women teachers, were generally hard hit. Examples : The Pawling School at Pawling, N.Y. closed its doors last spring. Hollywood's swank Black-Foxe Military Institute had a 50% faculty turnover...
Dining at the swank Sutton Place apartment of Manhattan Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Wendell Lewis Willkie jumped slightly every time Mrs. Mitchell spoke to the butler, finally got used to the fact that the butler's name was Wilkie...
...practical purposes) sole owner is dark, nervous, crinkly-eyed Harry Scherman, 56, onetime advertising man. The little venture in selling books by mail, which he helped launch in 1926, has grown in membership to 575,000. Scherman has moved into an apartment in Manhattan's swank Sutton Place district, also has a country house in horsy Bernardsville, N.J. Booksellers and publishers often call him "the most powerful man in publishing...
Lewis is a native of Washington, D.C. One of his forebears founded the capital's swank Chevy Chase Club. Lewis' wife is a daughter of Claudius Hart Huston, onetime Republican National Committee chairman. Although the Lewises live on a Maryland farm, they pursue a very social Washington existence...
Southwest started when Agent Hayward and onetime Airplane Salesman John Howard Connelly dined in a cosy booth in Beverly Hills' swank Chasen's Restaurant, decided to use some Hollywood razzle-dazzle on the Army's mushrooming pilot-training program...