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...orchestra's idea of le jazz hot was still in the wah-wah, funny-hat stage of the U.S. display bands of 1930. Maestros Alex Combelle and Andrea Leca were things of beauty in black ties and velvet jackets, but Combelle's gum-chewing guitarist wore a sweater with wide green and yellow horizontal stripes...
Said Miss Sue Shapley--"is the name, and don't you think I am?" Vassar '47, "Tell him to get me something with an 'H' inscribed on it, so I can remember which sweetheart it's from--preferably a letter sweater; filled, that...
...Duke of Windsor and his Duchess arrived safely in Manhattan-the Duke in a blue suit (and cotton sweater and plaid shirt), the Duchess in what she helpfully described to some 50 welcoming reporters and cameramen as "a blue wool suit with a red wool jersey, a striped silk hat-I guess that's what you call it-with a veil, and a black box calf and alligator handbag." Also a mink stole. But no jewels. (Explained the Duke, whose Duchess got stolen blind back in Britain: "Well, really, there wouldn't be many left to bring...
Bones in the Cinders. Police learned that Evelyn had borrowed a Packard sedan from a garage proprietor on that day, had returned it later with the front seat covered with blood. In the car, police found John Dick's blue sweater. Out in the back yard of her home, police found bits of human bones mixed with some cinders from the furnace. In her attic, encased in cement in an old suitcase, was the partly mummified body of a baby boy. So the police asked Evelyn some questions...
Britain's hopes were pinned on her aging showman Henry Cotton, now 39. He rolled up to the Royal & Ancient clubhouse as haughty and pigeon-toed as ever, in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dressed in a salmon-pink sweater and blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...