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...winter, 31-year-old Claude Harmon taught rich men how to play golf at Palm Beach's swank Seminole Club. Last week, he began to think about moving his wife and three kids up to Mamaroneck, N.Y. (where he has a summertime job as pro at Winged Foot). But first, Claude Harmon wanted to take a vacation. He went up to Augusta, Ga., to swap a few tall stories and play golf...
...Marx, he knew what was best. He organized riots (see cut) that weakened and, finally, a coup that overpowered the Kerensky government. He organized, as Marx had taught, a dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., a disciplined little gang of power monopolists). In 1917, in the assembly hall of a swank girls' school in Petrograd, behind unwashed windows that excluded the sky, Lenin stood up. His ill-fitting, overlong trousers flapped about his feet. Gripping the rostrum, he said quietly: "We shall now proceed to construct the proletarian socialist order in Russia...
...presidential boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner...
...swank Palace Hotel, untitled rich and titled rich & poor had their choice of more varieties of scotch than could be had in all Paris. Celebrity-hunters had their pick of ex-King Peter and Alexandra of Yugoslavia, any number of princes and dukes, Britain's famed Jockey Gordon Richards, or Paulette Goddard...
...afternoon last week, although it was a weekday, Paris looked like Kansas on Sunday. Some 75% of the city's shops and cafes were closed-the junk dealer at the Bastille, the exclusive hosier in the Rue de Rivoli, the cheap stationer in the Faubourg St. Antoine, the swank Champs Elysées barber. It was not a strike; it was a protest. Many of the indignant proprietors had gone to a mass meeting of the classes moyennes, the middle classes, at the vast and dingy Vélodrome d'Hiver. The protest was not local; throughout...