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...Newark Airport the private car which the pair had expected did not turn up. A fellow passenger obligingly motored them to Vincent Astor's Manhattan hotel, the swank St. Regis. That evening General Johnson watched Fisticuffer Joe Louis pummel Fisticuffer Primo Carnera at the Yankee Stadium. At a luncheon next noon the General was initiated into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, where he promised to "help the needy circus man" (cautiously muttering, "this is unofficial"), was treated with a shower of popcorn, decorated with a plug hat and a paper medallion certifying him a BIRD TRAINER, presented with a duck...
...Mill Neck, on Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then...
...proud role of telling Englishmen that Germany is out for naval parity with them in the North Sea fell last week to that astute young scion of Prussia's old nobility, monocled Joachim von Ribbentrop who, after coming unscathed through the War as a swank Torgau Hussar, was briefly reduced to selling whiskey...
...Foreign Office permanent officials viewed Sir Sam with alarm. The new Foreign Secretary, so far as they know, has no views on foreign affairs, many on dancing at swank night clubs, tennis playing, and fancy figure skating, a pastime which he pursues in skin-tight black professional figure-skater costume not only at St. Moritz in winter but in London at all seasons on socialite Grosvenor House's rink...
Married. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs, 27, mural painter, decorator, stylist, writer, musicologist, beauteous only daughter of Socialite Charles de Loosey Oelrichs of Manhattan, Newport and Palm Beach; and Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin, 26, registered pharmacist, orchidaceous band leader at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino; in Manhattan. Conductor Duchin's longtime theme song: "Margie...