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...Sealyham. Last November the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition called "Paintings for Paris." The eminent artists invited had been allowed to send their own choices. The show as a whole was a dud, unrepresentative, swank and dull. Nothing better indicates the quality of the Paris exhibition than the fact that of 46 paintings shown last autumn only five are among the 120 contemporary pictures now in Paris. And nothing shows better the character of the man chiefly responsible for the exhibition...
...sole and unofficial host. Major H. M. Cunningham, superintendent of the Ford assembly plant alongside the Potomac in nearby Alexandria, Va. In Major Cunningham's Lincoln, the party purred past the Alexandria home of John L. Lewis, through the plant grounds, and back to Washington's swank Shoreham hotel, where Mr. Ford was lodged at $16 for the day in a two-room suite done in modernistic grey and yellow...
...Ambassador Hugh Robert Wilson, complained that during the last five weeks she had tramped through 102 Berlin houses, could not find one suitable for the Embassy. Reason: to make room for Government buildings, Nazi city planners have razed residential structures, thereby creating an acute housing shortage in the swank Tiergarten district, where the diplomatic colony likes to live...
...Angeles, San Francisco., Minneapolis, Detroit, Princeton and New Haven to celebrate the 80th anniversary of their remarkable preparatory school. In Chicago they heard the school highly praised by University of Chicago's hard- to-please President Robert Maynard Hutchins. Little Lake Forest Academy (180 students), in a swank Chicago suburb, is remarkable not for its plant (valued at only $750,000) or ivied tradition (although it is one of the oldest prep schools in the Midwest) but for its long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason for last week's celebration was Big Dick...
...Harrison; 2) as a Presidential widow she has been a the expense of attending various functions, notably the Republican National Convention of 1936; 3) the Government pensions the widows of war veterans who married long after their period of service. In Manhattan where she lives in a small swank Fifth Avenue apartment with one maid, Mary Lord Harrison said nothing whatever...