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While he was about it, Modelman Conover revived the tried-&-true cry of the '20s: fashion designers were wrecking women's health by making them look like matchsticks. Promptly Designer Valentina got into the act: "Nonsense! . . . When the curves need correcting, the designer . . . corrects them. But never, never does she ignore them...
...Mortimer, sister of Mrs. Vincent Astor and Mrs. John Hay Whitney (ex-Mrs. Jimmy Roosevelt), again nosed out Mrs. Byron Foy, who sat firmly in second place, followed by Mrs. Millicent Rogers. Notable absence: Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, last year's third. Notable presence: Valentina, dress designer. The rest of the top ten, all past placers: Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, the Duchess of Windsor, Louise Macy Hopkins (whose husband Harry is chairman of Manhattan's garment industry), Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Mrs. Robert Sarnoff, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
...Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
Soviet Trade Union Chief Nikolai Shvernik (chairman), Communist Party Secretary (and No. 2 Bolshevik) Andrei Zhdanov, Writer Alexei Tolstoy,* Aviatrix Valentina Grizodubova. It was the first time in 25 years that a high church official had found himself in such company...
...Major Valentina Grizodubova, 31, is a she-falcon of the Red Air Force. She has a son five years old, nicknamed "Little Falcon." She is pretty, she is dark and she has dimples. She is also dangerous in a military sense, and so, by her account, are her feminine colleagues...