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...Madrid, whither they had fled from France (TIME, July 1), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor dined with Miguel Primo de Rivera, provincial chief of the Falangist (Fascist) organization, at the swank Palace Hotel; revealed that on their journey from their Cap d'Antibes villa they had been reduced to eating canned sardines. Confided the Duchess: "They were most delicious...
...lawyer) Westrick arrived in the U. S. through the back door from Japan. He brought with him his dark, beautiful wife, and his two boys, Klaus, 9, and Peter, 6. They put up at Manhattan's swank Plaza Hotel. For several weeks, short, stocky, snow-haired, direct-speaking, wound-limping Dr. Westrick did his business from there...
Roaring through the suburbs of Argenteuil and Neuilly, they entered the swank west end of Paris and swung into the broad Avenue de Neuilly leading to the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Elysees. Another column raced in from St. Denis in the northeast. Horse-drawn supply trains clopped across the Place de la Concorde (see cut, p. 21). No single tank or Nazi warrior passed under the famous Arc because that honor was reserved for Adolf Hitler when he should make his triumphal entry...
Last fortnight, on a lush campus in the swank Rydal section north of Philadelphia, a battalion of 150 uniformed girls, toting wooden rifles, marched in precise military review. It was Ogontz School's commencement day. Military drill has been a feature of Ogontz training since 1890. The late General Thomas D. Landon, commander of neighboring Bordentown (N. J.) Military Institute, who inaugurated military training at Ogontz and drilled the girls until 1935, held the view that you never knew when Amazons would come in handy...
Last week President Roosevelt wrote a letter regretting that Dr. Hart had accepted an offer. This one was from Boston's big, swank Trinity Church (salary: $15,000; communicants: 2,400), to be vacated this fall by another Southern aristocrat, Rev. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving, who leaves for modest little Trinity Church at Princeton, N. J. Boston should give Rector Hart another chance to refuse a bishopric, if he wishes to. Before "Tui" Kinsolving (who did not stay long enough), Trinity's three rectors each became a bishop...