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The Chevalier costume-un smoking (dinner jacket) and straw hat-is a vestigial remnant of the days before the War when, as Guest Contributor William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw...
1941: A furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her 80s, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite...
THE MAYORAL elections are going to be turning-points for both cities. The last two major big city machines may grind to a half, leaving Daley, Byrne, and White in-the-history books next to Boss Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall.
The most pressing vacancies are in the Politburo. At the beginning of the year, the ruling body of the Communist Party had 14 voting members, an enshrined gerontocracy whose average age was 70. The death last January of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 79, lowered the count by one, and last...
From the Politburo in Moscow down to the 414,000 primary party organizations in factories, schools and collective farms across the Soviet Union, power has always meant the ability to block or grant appointments. For 18 years, Brezhnev proved to be a master of the patronage system, having risen to...