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...Boston Distribution Conference last week (see p. 86), the most laughs were provided by young Edward S. Marcus, Secretary-Treasurer of Dallas' swank specialty shop, Neiman-Marcus. Mr. Marcus, in pursuit of new fashion ideas, took a three months' trip to South America. He came back well sold on the future of hemisphere trade, but with a new understanding of what it takes to do business with Latin America. Some items...
...simply evah so swank," gushed Gurdon Wattles, more seigne than ever in a six-button flowered damask coat with kerchief to match, at a pre-Sheridan punch yesterday in honor of the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace...
...great smuggling rings of the China coast, with headquarters in swank Shanghai hotels and in Hong Kong, the recapture of Foochow meant cash in their itching palms...
Park had gone to a swank prep school and Yale, from which he graduated by a judicious choice of snap courses; had started as a runner in Wall Street, been taken into the firm by his father when he showed signs of getting married. Park's father tried to act like an English squire by smelling of tweeds, eau de cologne and tobacco, and by tracking birds across the Long Island marshes, accompanied by his docile wife and an unsatisfactory setter. His generation was bothered by taxes, the New Deal, and the encroachment of the big city...
When Muñoz Marin went back to his native Puerto Rico in 1931, he did not like what he saw there. The poverty-stricken jibaros lived in misery and squalor. There were no gay tropical restaurants in Puerto Rico, no swank hotels...