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Back at work in his Kansas City office after his whirl in the East, Harry Truman found that he had failed to turn in his hotel keys, asked his secretary to "mail these back to the Waldorf-Astoria...
Party-Throwing Elsa Maxwell, arriving in Europe for another summer's social whirl, described "the most wonderful present your reporter ever received." Manhattan Toy Manufacturer Lee Bland, "a dreamboat" so far as Elsa is concerned, had sent her a letter: "This will entitle Elsa Maxwell to have all the balloons and everything else my factories make, whenever she desires...
Unpretentious Jessie Wilson, who did not expect to enjoy the social whirl when she came to Washington, has found her constant round of luncheons, teas and dinners arduous but fascinating. Says she: "Sometimes I feel as though my face will crack." The Wilsons also try to get home early, and generally succeed. Their most notable failure in this respect occurred in February, at a party in honor of Admiral Arthur Radford. At 11 o'clock Jessie Wilson wearily told Mrs. Radford that she wished "somebody would do something" about going home. Confided Mrs. Radford: "Nobody can do anything until...
...Rene's escapades form the main plot. They take her on a quick whirl through reform school, a marathon party with some furloughing G.I.s, a brush with genteel do-gooders, and a near marriage with a U.S. soldier named Hotspot (Hotty for short), which is interrupted by the rude appearance of the cops. But The Joyful Condemned is the sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers...
...temperaments. To the crowd of Lowell men who gather at almost any hour in the superintendent's office to hear Eddie, he is an inexhaustible, rapid fire narrator of undergraduate wickedness, and a belligerent upholder of the Boston Post. But when the modern Boston whirl has been pushed aside, as it often is during his long afternoon talks with Professor Kellcher, Harvard's Irish expert, Eddie is in lower gear; his speech is deliberate, his gestures wider and slower. He is talking then of his beloved Ireland. "Last summer, Frank O'Connor (Eddie's good friend), Kelleher, and myself read...