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...underworld's Gaudy Era, when that wealthy foursome, Lucky Luciano (prostitutes), Joe Adonis (bootlegging), Meyer Lansky (industrial rackets) and Jimmy Hines (politics), played golf at swank Hot Springs, Ark., ended around 1935. Dead was Gangster Vannie Higgins, who had owned and piloted his own airplane. Bootlegger Frankie Yale (Uale), bumped off, had been given a $50,000 funeral. Gunman Legs Diamond had at last been rubbed out, and his flowerlike Kiki Roberts, who had danced in Ziegfeld's Follies, had gone back to dancing in a roadhouse for a living. In 1935 organized crime appeared to have...
When Miami Beach's swank, expensive Nautilus Hotel refused to bar photographers and newsmen who wanted to interview him, Vacationist John L Lewis checked out in a huff...
When Miami Beach's swank, expensive Nautilus Hotel refused to bar photographers and newsmen who wanted to interview him, Vacationist John L Lewis checked out in a huff...
...transplanted Austria's Hannes Schneider (father of modern skiing) and his celebrated Ski School, developed 50 miles of downhill trails, installed a $125,000 skimobile (180 miniature cable cars), tripled the town's income. At nearby Franconia, Austria's Baron Hubert Pantz has established a swank ski club patterned after his famed Alpine Club Mittersill, rendezvous for folks like the Duke & Duchess of Windsor...
...than 1933. For this Standard Brands could chiefly blame the fact that few U. S. citizens like the taste of yeast, no matter how many vitamins the Fleischmann brand contains. More than a decade ago, when the U. S. housewife had quit baking bread at home, Fleischmann's swank advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, had an answer: yeast for health. By testimonials, by quotes from scientists, Standard Brands plugged yeast (three cakes a day) for pimples, constipation, that tired feeling. In rolled the money, for there is more profit percentage in a yeast-pat for an adolescent, than...