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...operation experimentally since the first of the year, The Network of the Americas was honored last week by a swank dedicatory dinner at Washington's Carlton Hotel, a 90-minute dedicatory broadcast over the 76 stations of La Cadena and also over the entire CBS domestic circuit...
...guerrillas and now Quezon's Secretary of Finance, three physicians, a nurse, and a group of military aides and secretaries. The trip to the U.S., said Quezon, was made "on, under and over the sea." He landed at San Francisco from a grey Army transport. Riding to the swank Mark Hopkins Hotel in an Army car, Manuel Quezon heard newsboys shout news of the Battle of the Coral...
Injury. In Bridgeton, N.J., Saleswoman Bessie Swank fell victim to an occupational hazard. She was hospitalized for a back injury sustained when she tried to get a large customer into a girdle...
Detroit's swank Saks Fifth Avenue store invited the General Motors Girls' Club to an evening fashion show, expected 300, and was swamped by working girls from all over the city. Saks put on its show four times in two nights, finally gave up with 8,000 requests for tickets still unfilled. The show featured inexpensive goods like compacts, gloves, $20 coats-instead, the girls bought $37 dresses, $85 coats...
...that galleries are barred from tournament bridge. For last week's final in Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre was one long to be remembered. The most prized team-of-four trophy in bridge, the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup, was at stake...