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Unperturbed by all this furor, a swart, mop-haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
...appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last summer, admitted that he had paid no income tax for three years, flayed speculation and generally won the hard hearts of hostile Senators by his charm and grace (TIME, July 10). After dark he was Otto Kahn, patron of arts, bon vivant, first nighter at opera and theatre. As a capitalist he preached the threadbare maxims of success, pointed with pride to the fact that he was advanced in the little bank at Karlsruhe because he licked stamps faster and more efficiently than anyone else. But as an artist he loved freshness...
...department. One of them is tiny, big-voiced John Livingston Lowes, 66, keen student of the Romantic Movement. He is perhaps the most brilliant U. S. example of the great scholar-teacher whom President Conant wants on his faculty. Another giant is snowy-bearded George Lyman Kittredge, 73, bon vivant, Chaucer and Shakespeare authority, prime link between Harvard's past & present...
Melody Cruise, RKO's first musical production, is built around Charles Ruggles- an expert comedian but no singer-in the character of a gentle bon vivant with a perpetual case of jitters. He embarks from Manhattan to San Francisco, has his trip made hideous by two chorus girls whom he discovers in his room after the ship has sailed. The main liabilities of Melody Cruise are the performers technically called "juveniles"-Phil Harris, who sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs...
...Palmer House, Just 13 days before John Drake scampered out of the path of the fire to buy himself a new hotel, Potter Palmer swung wide the doors of Chicago's finest hostelry. Like most of Chicago it was burned to the ground. But the grizzled bon-vivant who had sold his drygoods store to Levi Leiter and Marshall Field because he thought his days were numbered, lived to see a new Palmer House become Chicago's first world-famed hotel. Its barber shop (floor studded with silver dollars) set the fashion for every first-class saloon west...