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...daily with gangster gunfire. No such ignoramus is Emile E. C. Mathis, French motor car tycoon who has visited the U. S. many times. Last week he and handsome Mme Mathis were in the U. S. again. One evening in Manhattan they made a gay night of it at swank restaurants and night clubs, winding up with scrambled eggs & coffee at famed Reuben's ("That's All") all-night restaurant on 58th Street, hard by the Plaza Hotel where they were staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Manhattan Technique | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...present) husband Ernest Aldrich Simpson, a London shipbroker, probably her best friend, next to the Duke of Windsor, remains the Argentine Ambassador in Washington, Felipe Espil. He, in the years of which he now speaks was an Argentine bachelor. First Secretary in Washington. "My, my!" sighed Ambassador Espil to swank U. S. friends last summer, "who would ever have dreamed that our little Wallis would ever be where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woman of the Year | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Rosemary Hall in swank Greenwich, Conn, is a collection of Gothic-Roman- esque-Italianate buildings which are predominantly pink stucco chiefly because pink is a favorite color of Rosemary's breezy, strong-minded old Headmistress Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece). The "Boarders" and the "Day Boarders" wear wool or tweed uniforms in winter and gingham ones in spring tailored to Headmistress Ruutz-Rees's exact specifications. All regard her with a loyalty that makes Rosemary Hall notable among girls' schools not so much for its fashionableness and its stiff scholastic standards as for the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss R'Treece | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love while the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York." He was taken up by swank New York socialites and in his honor was held a fancy dress ball that is still the talk of the West Fifties. Mme Dali wore a dress of transparent red paper and a headdress made of boiled lobsters and a doll's head. Artist Dali wore a glass case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Marvelous & Fantastic | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...younger brothers except in their early real-estate days. The only member of a family of five children who ever married, he continued in real estate until 1925, when he retired. The two spinster Van Sweringen sisters, who live together in the house their brothers originally built in their swank Shaker Heights development, were taken care of in "O. P.'s" will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Empire's Heirs | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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