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...dresses with full-length zippers are snatched out of the hands of delivery men. The Woman's Society of Winnetka's Congregational Church cleared $7,400 in a one-day sale, with more than 5,000 people scrabbling for old lamps, jewelry, and clothes hangers. In swank Lake Forest, upper-crust ladies clamor for silk evening gowns that can be converted to nightgowns...
...Called a world monetary conference for July 1 at swank Bretton Woods, in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Invited: all of the United Nations except Bolivia...
...noontime last week General Eisenhower inspected huge, noisy "Willow Run." the mass-production officers' mess in London's swank Grosvenor House. Refusing a table in the alcove reserved for rank, General "Ike" joined a line of junior officers at the cafeteria. In due course he collected pork, potatoes, spinach and salad...
Carl Brisson was last week fast becoming known as the "matrons' Sinatra." An elegant, dimpled, Danish grandfather, who admits to 46, he was packing ladies of ripe years into Manhattan's swank Versailles nightclub. Carl Brisson has a strictly personal, purple-tinted baritone, and for the use of it he was taking down some $2,000 a week. His was a curious, belated success story...
Next day, in a hurriedly called press luncheon in Harlem's swank Hotel Theresa, she told newsmen: "I was frightened when I first heard I was chosen to run-for about 15 minutes. But I'm not frightened any more." Her soft-spoken husband, Dr. F. Douglas Speaks, proudly served drinks from a side table. Said Mrs. Speaks: "You have to work with people to put any program over. I do not believe that there is too much that a Negro Congressman can do alone in Washington." Her platform, however, includes a proposal to revise the 14th Amendment...