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Washingtonians could set their clocks by Diplomat Moffat's daily walk to the State Department. A fast walker, he first strides three-quarters of a mile to the swank Metropolitan Club, arriving at 8:20, reads the morning papers for exactly one-half hour, leaves, walks in his office door at 8:55. Only hard work and a good, long record (he joined the Foreign Service in 1919, has served at Warsaw, Berne, Tokyo, Constantinople, Sydney) prevent Jay Pierrepont Moffat from being a lady novelist's version of the ideal diplomat: he goes out socially a great deal...
...Brooklyn Young Republican Club voted 24-to-11 to endorse Willkie in preference to Tom Dewey. In Illinois, Major Aaron K. Stiles (Stiles Waxt Thread), who recently retired as chairman of the Republican State Committee, leaped back as manager of a Willkie campaign. Along Philadelphia's swank Main Line, rough & ready Wendell Willkie had become the rage. William H. Harman, vice president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, and head of the Pennsylvania Willkie-for-President Club, declared: "I regard this as a semi-religious movement and we are trying to get it on a revival basis." A Chestnut Hill lady...
...shouted "Hell Mosley!" before they were hustled off to Brixton Gaol. Married with Nazi pomp to Diana Guinness, sister of the Führer's bullet-punctured friend Unity Freeman-Mitford, with Hitler reported to have been best man. Sir Oswald recently celebrated "my forthcoming arrest" in a swank London restaurant. He was picked up at home and police were sent after his wife, who had headed for Eire...
...Universal) falls chronologically between Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, continues Universal's minor cycle of pictures named for resuscitated song hits. Its original plot, whereby grinning Tom Brown and ululant Constance Moore salvage a swank insolvent dress shoppe by high-priced publicity and low-priced gowns, is the brain child of Columnist-errant Ed Sullivan (TIME, April...
...Conventioners met not in a motor court, but in the swank Norman and Shoreham hotels...