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Socialites of Manhattan's swank Brook Club tendered a test dinner last week to one of the chief arbiters of French wine elegance. M. le Baron Marcel Fouquier is president of the Academic des Oenophiles (wine lovers) which yields in dignity and discrimination not even to the Academic Francaise...
They sat on the edges of their chairs, teetering, twisting. Their clothes and manners showed that few of them were at ease amid the splendors of Manhattan's swank Ritz-Carlton Hotel. But it was less their surroundings than the fateful decision that each & every one of them was about to make that caused them to squirm nervously...
Only real deflation has been in the plant built up by Stock Exchange firms during the 1920s. Gone are the swank shipboard branches. Gone are all branches from many a U. S. city. Gone are one-half the boomtime customers' men. Gone are one-half the 10,000 tickers that tapped out the bad news five years ago this week...
...light brown. Mrs. Wright, a onetime school-teacher whose mother was German, has all the appearance of a white. With keen intellectual curiosity they awaited the births of their two children. Jane, 14, is distinctly brown. Barbara, 13, looks like a little white girl. The children attend the swank, progressive Ethical Culture School...
...Odlum. Bonwit Teller differed from the other Odlum odds & ends in that it made about $500,000 annually until 1930. Mr. Odlum differed from most of his Wall Street elders in that he made fortunes while they were losing them. He concluded that the logical person to run a swank women's specialty shop was a woman. His wife was no swankier than he (they live simply in suburban Forest Hills, prefer Utah to Europe for vacationing), but after she wrote a report for him on the basis of a month's inspection of the store, "Tenney" Odlum...