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Premier Mussolini sent a pilot train full of Italian police to lead the Hohenzollern Special across Italy from Yugoslavia to Switzerland, and at Lugano station Carol was cheered by Swiss as he alighted smiling and took Magda to a swank hotel overlooking the lake. They dined sumptuously with the Rumanian Minister to Switzerland, sitting at table until after 10 p.m., applied to Vichy by telegraph for permission to settle on the French Riviera. The Vichy Government hemmed & hawed. The Axis might not like...
...curvesome Swimmer Eleanor Holm, whom he married after a divorce from Fanny Brice. Last week Showman Rose revealed himself as a collector of art. Mr. Rose has some 20 canvases, mostly Old Masters, which he began buying a year aro to hang in his house on Manhattan's swank Beekman Place...
...summer-resort country a jumble of big, rambling buildings sits on the crest of a rolling, wooded slope which rises from the shores of a blue lake. During World War I it was used as a recuperation camp for Canadian officers. After the war it was remodeled as a swank private sanatorium, which failed during the depression. Two months ago it underwent another metamorphosis. The Canadian Government surrounded it with barbed wire, set up sentry boxes, installed 300 Nazi prisoners...
...firm of her own. In 1921 Mrs. C. B. Wood, known around Dalton as Sister Kate, made some fancy, fringed spreads for Wanamaker's, by 1929 was producing as many as 600 a day, often had 1,500 at once out in the homes of her tufters. To swank B. Altman in Manhat tan Sister Kate sold $60,000 worth of spreads a year...
...Manhattan, the swank hairdressing salon of Antoine de Paris stood on end when a cable came from the Duchess of Windsor asking that Manhattan Hairdresser Wayne Forrest be sent at once to Nassau to do her hair for an important reception. To Nassau, where the Duchess and her Governor-Husband obligingly held hands for photographers, the hairdresser flew on 24 hours' notice, with a permanent wave dryer, packets of nail polish, rouge, powder, lipstick...