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...Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend, Marshal Badoglio broke that rule last week. The world quickly learned that leading the advance from the south were those swankest of regiments, the Genoa Dragoons and Aosta Lancers. In eight days they had covered 250 miles from Dolo to the mountain slopes beyond Noghelli. Snipers fought them every mile, but failed to stay the advance. As willing to risk his own life as those of his men, monocled Graziani went with...
...dropped last week by solid, bourgeois Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then proceeded to accentuate the crash. What honest Stanley did to friendly Edith the insulted peeress herself revealed with an icy statement from Londonderry House that it will not be the scene this year of Mayfair's swankest ball on the eve of Parliament's reopening Dec. 3. Concluded the irate Marchioness of Londonderry: "The Lord and Lady Londonderry offered their house as usual to the Prime Minister but Mr. Baldwin considered the present moment not opportune...
...months ago two cocky young Harvardrmen decided that Massachusetts, which is liberally endowed with giveaway country weeklies, had no good ones. To amend the situation they started the Brookline Citizen in Boston's swankest suburb, proceeded to give it away to some 18,000 Brooklinites. By last week at least one reader had looked the gift horse in in the mouth and found it not to his liking. On the Citizen's editorial page appeared this letter from one Peter McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save...
...Last week, however, Pennsylvanians were beginning to realize how hard it would be to evade it. Discrimination of any kind will be a crime, punishable by a fine up to $500. a jail sentence up to 60 days. Two Negro women marched into the William Penn Hotel Beauty Salon, swankest in Pittsburgh, asked for a "powder test." usually given free. A white beautician told them it would cost $5 apiece. They showed their money. She said they would have to have an appointment. They asked for one. She finally said there were no appointments free for a month; she would...
...Endless trains of heavy trucks rumbled through the streets carrying shiny new bodies. Shoppers crowded the sidewalks. Department stores reported the best sales since 1930. Cinema theatres and night clubs were packed. At least seven Broadway dramas had played to full houses for a week or more. At the swankest cocktail bars in the town, L'Aiglon and the Book Cadillac, waiters got little sleep. Clerks and salaried workers grumbled as rents and food prices went up. Relief rolls had shrunk so low it was hard to find labor enough to finish public projects already started...