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...switched to the Democratic National Committee as a potent party propagandist among women. Distributed among 3,000 Democratic women's clubs were millions of copies of her pamphlets on the oil scandals, on civil service reform, on party history. She was long publicity director for Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel, started a smart-chart called the Washingtonian which suspended publication in 1932. In 1928 Democrat Banister was strongly anti-Smith but cast no vote. She was on the Roosevelt bandwagon early...
...Harvard graduation (1913) Mr. Earle roamed Germany and Austria for two years, served in the Navy during the War, is now vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co., a director of the Philadelphia Record. Dark, handsome, husky, he lives with his wife and four children at Haverford on the swank Main Line...
...Jarboro's debut the Hippodrome was sold out days in advance, standees were thick in the aisles. From swank Striver's Row to the river slums, Harlem came downtown to welcome her, filled one-third of the house. Tall and good-looking, dark enough to need no makeup in the role of an Ethiopian slave, Jarboro revealed the husky voice of her race, rich in texture, not perfectly schooled. At the end of the aria "Ritorna vincitor" she was recalled three times, not by Negro cheers only...
...years American Telephone & Telegraph's chief traveling auditor. While still an undergraduate Bill Young published financial articles, invented a new type of slide rule. His method of calculating security values involves the use of 30 separate ratios. Now 32, married but childless, he lives on swank Sutton Place, uses his yacht Arab as a summer home...
...discovered by a few Britishers who like to dress for dinner in semitropical climates. They encouraged Mallorcans to keep prices amazingly low ($1 a day for hotel room & meals). They swam staidly in the little blue bays, played tennis at the Royal Lawn Tennis Club, in El Terreno, swank suburb of medieval Palma. But in 1931 the peseta sank to a new low and a new horde overran Mallorca: U. S. hard-drinkers who wanted to live like characters in a novel by Ernest Hemingway. They set up their own bars in Mallorca's famed caves. They started...