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After almost a half century on the boards, oldtime Showgirl Sophie Tucker finally got to play Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The occasion was the biggest one-night stand of her career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with...
...inspected the egg of a sea urchin (magnified 10,000 times by an electron microscope). In New York the Prince turned up at a Yankees-Browns night game, was a red-carpet guest at City Hall, visited the Stock Exchange and United Nations headquarters, and was feted at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner. On the way to Hyde Park to lay a wreath at the grave of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Prince and his party got out for a stretch at Shrub Oak, Westchester, were routed by a woman who came flying out of a motel, crying: "You people...
...figured to trample all over Baylor University from Waco, Texas. But Baylor fielded a quarterback named "Cotton" Davidson, who played 59½ minutes, scored two touchdowns, and directed his team like a master. Final score: Baylor 25, California 0, the worst licking handed a California team since Coach Lynn Waldorf took over...
...problem of a $175,000 executive who is able to keep only $48,000 in take-home pay is not one calculated to arouse the sympathy of the average wage-earner. And the well-heeled executive, describing his unhappy plight in the Waldorf-Astoria bar or on the beach at Miami, is likely as not writing his entertainment or his vacation off on the company's expense account. But the problem of executive pay is nonetheless a real one to executives who are taking on greatly increased responsibilities with little or nothing to show for their efforts...
Paris has exported a new chanteuse. She calls herself Patachou (rhymes with not-a-shoe), because the word is French for creampuff dough and she used to run a pastry shop in Montmartre. After two highly successful months at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, and a record released by Columbia, Patachou is currently wowing them at Los Angeles' Coconut Grove. Her fans claim she is the biggest thing that happened in France since Mistinguette wore pigtails. What is so special about this ex-pastrycook? Part of the answer lies with her predecessors...