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...socialite party which the Sisters attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in general. When the Swanee Sisters have executed a bewildering overnight rise from penniless unemployment to cabaret celebrity, Patsy Kelly is less pleased than truculently suspicious and, when a waiter hands her a caviar canapé, her dissatisfaction is complete. "What good is caviar?" she demands hoarsely. "It tastes like buckshot soaked in axle grease." Good songs: Take It Easy, I'm in the Mood for Love...
...Monte Carlo. Mrs. A. M. Sherwood, 65, of Los Angeles, Calif., had a hunch when she saw that her waiter's number was 13, scuttled for the Casino to play No. 13, slipped on a banana peel, broke her leg in two places...
Individual accomplishments are difficult to classify in the Register & Tribune plant. But it was during John Cowles's ascendancy that circulation was upped from 114,000 to 280,000; that national features were added until the paper now offers 17, from Walter Lippmann to Waiter Winchell-more headliners than any other newspaper in the U. S.; that three radio stations were established; that profits mounted to a prodigious figure with 48% of revenue coming from circulation. Definitely credited to John Cowles is the Register & Tribune Syndicate, started eleven years ago and now serving some 40 features to clients...
...size, his strength, his enormous Marseille voice, generally admitted to be the loudest in Paris. President Bouisson broke the handle of so many brass dinner bells, bonging for order, that the present bell is firmly screwed to the desk, rung by a lever at the top. Like a head waiter, President Bouisson has spent his working hours in full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped his hat on his bald head. When the President of the Chamber...
While we have said that there was a general approval of exercise requirement there have been individual cases (the Student Waiter question being a notable example) in which students have requested exemption. The Dean's office has not had the authority to grant any such requests even if they were based on reasonable evidence. Therefore, although we agree with the athletic policy as a whole, we recommend...