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...took to heart a remark made to him by his cousin Polly: "Now remember, Gordon, you never earned a cent of the money you are about to enjoy." Gordon thereupon set out to make a record that money couldn't buy, led his class at Virginia's swank Woodberry Forest School (the Groton of the South), was president of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of North Carolina and editor of the Law Journal at Yale. He went on to a career in which, so far, he has succeeded as a lawyer, newspaper publisher, soldier, Government official...
...bull of a man who is one of a new group of civic-minded oilmen. While not in the same financial class as Cullen or Hunt, he has quietly amassed millions in an office labeled simply with his name and the words "Oil Operator." Smith headed Houston's swank Petroleum Club, spends much of his time and money on such civic functions as civil defense and hospitals, is No. 1 layman of Houston's First Methodist Church, the nation's largest...
...silk panties embroidered with teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita, apparently passed out from too much opium and was thrown on the beach by her companion and left to drown...
...extraordinary" expenses. In 1951 President J. T. Kingsley's expense account totaled $78,986, McGinnis collected $32,250, the chief item being $20,865 for "entertaining, luncheons, dinners, etc." Kingsley's listed expenses included $2,746 for "beverages and provisions" for a penthouse on Miami's swank Ponce de Leon Hotel and $1,290 for membership and fees to the equally plush Surf Club in Miami Beach. The Norfolk Southern also paid out $7,200 for trips of officials and their guests to the Kentucky Derby...
...Manhattan with as many as 2,000 apartments apiece. New York City's Housing Authority has put up 130 buildings (15,679 apartments), has 29 more under construction. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. has built three new housing projects of its own; other private operators have built everything from swank $1,000-a-month penthouses to $32-a-month apartments. Altogether, they give Manhattan almost enough new bedrooms, baths, and kitchens to house Nevada's population...