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...States Hotel Stakes, photographers found: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (whose Discovery has run second to Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade in four major races this year); Mrs. John Hay Whitney (who goes for morning rides on the backstretch of the racetrack) ; Joseph Widener (just back from Europe, wearing button-shoes); Samuel D. Riddle (who gives a party every time a descendant of his famed Man o' War wins a race); old John Sanford (whose son "Laddie" was playing polo on Long Island in the test games for the East-West matches). Notably absent was Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane...
...everything else, including dresses made of cellophane and rubber, collars of china, gadgets designed from harness. One of her best textile designs grew out of some plaster and netting she picked up in a rubbish pile. In her crusade for sharp, dramatic line ("skyscraper silhouet") Mme Schiaparelli persecutes the button with morbid zeal, has substituted all manner of gadgets in place of it, including metal coat fasteners in the shape of dollar signs...
...700th birthday of their fusty little city, proud burghers of Emmerich feted the dressiest Nazi. Beefy Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring constantly designs new uniforms to button around his barrel midriff and is said to have caused the Queen of Siam to remark, "He must eat a lot of rice?but no, in Germany it is potatoes." Utterly dazzled by Premier Göring's appearance at Emmerich, the local Tageblatt dashed off a fashion note which Czechoslovak papers picked up last week and printed under mocking headlines...
...General Göring appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...ABOUT?Archibald Marshall?Button ($3.50). Random reminiscences of Punch's gentlest contributor, England's quietest living novelist...