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...large German hospital fire him for being too independent, young Dr. Ehrlich enters a long life of prodigious work--during which he finds the method for recognizing tuberculosis germs, discovers a diptheria serum, and gives the world a cure for its devasting "social disease." At a very swank dinner party one dear old lady asks Dr. Ehrlich what is working on now. "Syphilis," he replies, and thirty months drop open in shocked amazement...
...celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis* on a still undetermined subject. That night, dancing with Socialite Margaret McGrath, daughter of Wall Street Lawyer Francis Sims McGrath, in Rockefeller Center's swank Rainbow Room, Son David won the polka prize...
Gone are the days when the U. S. figure-skating championship was a private party for a handful of Eastern socialites. Last week, when the 23rd national tournament was held at Cleveland's swank Skating Club, officials were a little embarrassed at the large turnout. From North & South, from East & West they came, in contestants, largest entry list in the history of the event. To examine each skater's hairline tracings in twelve finicky figures was a laborious task for the tournament's five judges...
Twelve 1940 debutantes met at a swank Manhattan saloon. Sipping tea, they cast votes for the season's "glamor boy," chose blond, rosy-cheeked Donald Munroe (see cut), who designs debs' clothes and is not in the Social Register...
...affairs the two motor-makers can mostly thank an aging (64), roly-poly, apple-cheeked Swedish immigrant named August Johnson. Hired six months ago to get Graham-Paige off the hook, Executive Vice President Johnson has done the job almost singlehanded. But in Detroit, where motor executives are as swank and streamlined as their product, he is definitely out of place. He works in a shabby office, wears unpressed clothes, speaks with a thick Swedish accent, puts on no more side than a country storekeeper...