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Like most of the events in Stark Young's life, this one was a shooting of the most fashionable rapids. He opened the proceedings with a lecture to 53 lady friends of Greece and art, including the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Countess di Zoppola, Countess Mercati. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and a clutch of male critics and writers...
...come to that elegant, if conscience-stricken, practitioner of letters, Vincent Sheean, in TIME, May 3. . . . Certainly no one alive does the "Says I to Churchill, and says Winnie to me" stuff any better. As to the swimming pool you so thoughtfully reproduce. . . . If he believes that nudity is a prerogative of the idle rich, I would urge his attendance at the mass rites at Coney Island any summer Sunday. But Mr. Sheean, lush hedonist, has his inevitable moment of compunction when he changes to his near-Marxist line, like the man who doesn't kiss, but tells. Perhaps...
Harry O'Hare, Miles Harvard Overholt, Jr., Vincent Leonard di Salvatore Pasciuto, Donald Dunham Perry, James Henry Reynolds, Jr., Joseph Crawford Scott, Thomas Warren Sears, Jr., William Joseph Shea, Morris Victor Shelanski, Robert Breckenridge Sherwood, Harold Jules Sigoloff, Thaxter Parks Spencer, Howard Edwin Upson, Morton Waldstein, Thurston Wood, Ching...
Meanwhile, School Board President Vincent S. Sadlowski has been indicted on the charge of having, as Councilman, accepted a bribe from a parking meter company. Last week teachers were struggling to get continuing contracts. The Board showed some signs of backing up, signing up. Tough Hamtramck, although busy in its war plants, happy in its beer gardens, was apparently beginning to resent its newest, if not greatest, local scandal...
Brave Winston. Vincent Sheean resisted the seductions of this phony pagany by refusing to undress-though "it probably was indecent of me to remain clothed in the midst of all that nakedness." If there were "too many elaborate strangers," Sheean "became violently ill and had to spend the greater part of [his] visit in bed, vomiting profusely from morning to night." He believes that "Maxine understood that it was some kind of unconscious protest...