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...apartment in which he died was the perfect complement to his publishing business and an index to the variety of his taste. There he entertained the same people for whom he published Vogue. There to his elaborate dinners, dances, cocktail parties, came socialites, Hollywoodites, Broadwayites, statesmen, royalty. The star of a Broadway opening was as thrilled by an after-theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party...
Just as diverse is the complement of Dunster House, the smallest of the lot. It has the largest library and its inhabitants manage even so to engage in every sort of activity, even to the point of staging an annual bicycle race to Wellesley...
Harold Smith, the Budget Director, conferring oftener with President Roosevelt than any other man save Harry Hopkins, had turned into a kind of left-hand man to complement Hopkins on the right. Long before the Army shake-ups in March, Smith's able, quiet staff workers had run fish-cold eyes over the War Department, seeking out weak spots. When the State Department and Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Committee feuded, Harold Smith wooed them back to harmony. Before Presidential Adviser Samuel Rosenman reorganized war production, and cleaned up the defense-housing mess, he conferred chiefly with Smith...
...announcement of the Army's enlisted reserve plan, to complement the Navy's V-1 program, and President Conant's suggestion for federal scholarships to give future officers a college education has changed this picture completely. Once scorned "cultural" subjects are now recognized as vital weapons. And with this change in attitude on the part of the Armed Forces, we must change our own attitude as well. We cannot afford to neglect the broad common content of our education, since we have seen that it is at last equally as important as electronics or industrial administration. Prospective infantry lieutenants...
Twenty hard strokes just after the three-quarter mile mark of Lake Carnegie's Henley course gave Captain Bobby Lincoln's 150-pound crew the wherewithall to capture the Goldthwait Cup for the fifth consecutive year in addition to usual complement of Yale and Princeton shirts...