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...three Mongol delegates showed no visible pain at the snub. Headed by Vice Prime Minister Youmzha Tsedenbal, they were encamped at Manhattan's swank Hotel Plaza, where they showed an avid liking for Western ways by wolfing filet mignons. Communication with them was practically impossible, since they were carefully shepherded away from reporters by their Soviet escort (and interpreter), one Captain V. Krivoshekov. Their only recorded comment: Paris was the most beautiful city they had ever seen, "but so old. In Ulan Bator [Outer Mongolia's capital], now, there is much building-something new popping...
...pounds beyond the legal limit. In London's Bow Street police court, Lady Stanley (who likes her friends to call her "Portia") pleaded guilty. Beside her, booked on the same charge, stood fiftyish Anton Bon, who likes his friends to call him "Major." Manager of London's swank Dorchester Hotel Ltd., he has made his establishment the Royal Family's favorite spot for social appearances. "Major" Bon also pleaded guilty. For Portia and her co-defendants British justice was unseasoned with mercy. The fines: Lady Stanley, ?2,500; Bon, ?2,650; Dorchester Hotel...
...worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord or no lord. They be fine people, the Digbys, got no swank with them either, friendly as you please. And there's no doubt about it," adds Mrs. Shuttle, "he could sell that fruit at twice the price. I bought a peach from him for sixpence that would have cost me one and six in Dorchester...
From the time she was 16, and got her first real tennis instruction (from Bruce Ainley, pro at swank Town House), Pauline set the alarm clock for 5 a.m., took a basketful of balls to the practice court and worked on her strokes until it was time for school. At 21, she won a scholarship to Florida's tennis-conscious Rollins College, played No. 4 on the men's team and got enough As in the classroom to earn a scholarship in economics at Columbia. She didn't like Manhattan's weather, and quit Columbia after...
Since the inauguration two months ago Eva de Perón had set a pace for which only Eleanor Roosevelt had set modern precedent. At her office on the fourth floor of the Central Post Office Building she received trade union delegations before her neighbors along the swank Avenida Alvear were out of bed. Nurses and teachers, quick to spot a militant feminist, mayors and cabinet ministers eager for Evita's views on public issues, jammed her waiting rooms...