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...Swank & Slot Machines. The 20-story, 400-room Havana Riviera (up to $40 a day for a double room) is a modern-style palace with egg-crate fagades, wall-to-wall marble, a 78-cabaña pool and ornate saloons. One of its prime functions plainly is to house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest...
Dance with Mum. Tommy starred in a film (The Tommy Steele Story), followed such stars as Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward into London's swank Café de Paris, and told his fans how the posh life felt: "I'm the proudest kid in the world-I've danced with my mum in the Café de Paris...
...Geraldine Veronica ("Jerry") Stutz, 33, vice president since 1955 of I. Miller retail stores, 17-store subsidiary of General Shoe Corp., one of the world's largest shoe companies, was named president of Henri Bendel Inc., swank Manhattan specialty store with annual sales volume of about $5,000,000. She succeeds Ben Willingham, General Shoe vice president on temporary loan to Bendel, who will remain as director. Tall (5 ft. 6 in.), svelte (no Ibs.) and unmarried, Jerry Stutz was educated in Chicago's St. Scholastica convent school, won a dramatics scholarship to Mundelein College, where she switched...
High-Kneed Unison. The Black Watch opened in Washington (where it stirred its audiences to exuberant Dixie rebel yells), moved into jampacked Madison Square Garden, last week skirled through Canada and New York State before heading for points west. Even for a non-Scots observer, the Watch has swank. First off come the trumpeters and the regimental band playing Great Little Army and wearing the somber kilts that gave the Watch its name when it mustered for its first parade on the banks of the River...
...Best Ever. It is doubtful that the new Althea will ever again be in the same kind of emotional pressure cabin. In Chicago last month, when she turned up for the national Clay Courts championship, hotels in stuffy Oak Park would not rent her a room; the swank Pump Room of the Ambassador East Hotel refused reservations for a luncheon in her honor. Officials and newsmen burned with rage, but Althea hardly noticed it. "I tried to feel responsibilities to Negroes, but that was a burden on my shoulders," says she. "If I did this or that, would they like...