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...Yale is a good college. Rudy Vallee went there, you know. And he is sure a swell fellow, even though he does have trouble with his wives." So says Pat Campbell (pronounced Camel), doorman of the British Empire Building at New York's Radio City. "I like Princeton too; who was it that went there? Oh yes, Woodrow Wilson...
...fruitless taxiing over glassy water Plane No. 4 hoisted herself into the sky. Thirty minutes later the flagplane piloted by Commander McGinnis got off. For nearly two hours they circled over the bay while the remaining four charged up & down and smaller planes taxied around to kick up a swell. Finally a shout went up from the bridge of the U. S. S. Gannet, where stood Admiral David Foote Sellers, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet: "He's up!" Plane No. 5 had found a breeze off a point of land, had climbed on it. At five...
...scene between Marcia and Sheridan, what should be a tensely dramatic situation turns all too easily into a saccharine and obviously adumbrated fiasco; mutual forgiveness between them finally comes when Marcia says, "I had hoped that when I passed away I could say, 'Thanks for a perfectly swell party...
...left, then moved to Amarillo, Tex. to start a chain of papers of his own. His column in the Amarillo News-Globe, The Tactless Texan, has given Gene Howe more than his neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time, Gene Howe gave a tea for her at which 40 of his Amarillo cronies appeared in frock coats rented from Chicago. She called...
...signs decrees for the State while Stalin signs them for the Party. Stalin's Front Man, gay and juicy old President Mikhail Kalinin, whom Ambassador Bullitt called "charming." Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff whose bright-eyed children Tanya and Mischa convinced nine-year-old Anne Bullitt that "Moscow is swell and the theatres are grand!" War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Vorishilov, who was picked and successfully popularized by Stalin to efface from Soviet minds the Red Army's oldtime War Lord and Stalin's rival Trotsky. With "Klim" at a dinner tendered Ambassador Bullitt by the Litvinoffs were...