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...doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm girls rehearsed a tableau vivant, and the village band started practicing The Stars and Stripes Forever. Under the leadership of hefty Grocer Albert Siebers, the rusty Achterhoekse Volksdansers (square dancing) society reconvened, to try out their old steps to the accompaniment of an accordion...
Died. Francis Welch ("Frank") Crowninshield, 75, longtime editor of the late, famed Vanity Fair, pioneer U.S. collector of modern French art, elegant bon vivant of the old school; after an operation; in Manhattan. Frank Crowninshield made Vanity Fair a gourmet's selection of new, high-flavored literary and artistic dishes, sandwiched bright new writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos and E. E. Cummings between the paintings of Matisse, Segonzac, Pascin, Laurencin, and seasoned the whole with Covarrubias caricatures and Steichen photographs. At 71, after observing that "it would make a frightful mess if I died and left...
...Eugenic Reale. Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, holds the party's foreign portfolio. He is a physician, a brilliant conversationalist and a bon vivant who has the puffy, pouting look of a constipated baby...
Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
Julian R. Càceres, Honduras' bon vivant Ambassador to the U.S., the conference's Mr. Five-by-Five, graced the occasion. Dr. Caceres is famed for his ardor (but not always for his luck) at international crap-shooting...