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...since abrogation. A three-mile-long line of Egyptians of all classes marched steadily and wordlessly past a million spectators. It was impressively restrained. The politicians and pashas who ostentatiously took places at the head of the parade dropped out after a few blocks and went round to the swank Mohammed Ali Club for refreshments, or were driven away in their limousines. But the people poured on-platoons of lawyers, doctors and merchants, wearing tarbooshes, mingled with battalions of factory workers and street peddlers in skull caps. Copts, Moslems and sheiks marched arm in arm under banners showing the cross...
...Mexico? They registered at the Endicott Hotel and counted out $1,000 apiece. After stuffing the rest of the money in a paper bag, they went to Grand Central Terminal, and pushed it into a rented locker. Then, moving from one swank Fifth Avenue shop to another, and handing startled taxi drivers $5 to $10 tips in the process, they engaged in a surrealistic shopping spree...
Among the swank set at Deauville, France there were two versions as to how Aly Khan picked up the massive shiner on his right eye. Popular version: dining at a restaurant without his usual companion of late, Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, he let his eye rove too obviously toward a nearby beauty whose husband's aim was right on target. Aly's story: "My physical instructor hit me accidentally with his head...
...ashore, Sailor Danielsen lost his sealegs, wavered into trouble. On a spree in London one night, he smashed through a glass door in a salon of the swank Dorchester Hotel, where the Norwegian government in exile was meeting. Later, at the same hotel, he tried acrobatic stunts from the chandeliers. At war's end his disciplinary record was so bad that his father, Admiral Edvard C. Danielsen, tossed him out of the navy...
...dance craze was sweeping the hemisphere. Part rumba and part jive, with a strong dash of itching powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...