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...unbent to the point of dancing with a pretty parlor maid. Those who were British-born and trained reminisced fondly on Britain's great pre-War entertaining when 20 maids and 20 valets would accompany their masters and mistresses to a great house for the weekend, bringing outside gossip. Some of the footmen and chauffeurs were also British but the rest of the butlers' underlings were Irish. German and Scandinavian, more rawboned and clumsy than a good butler likes...
...quiet, unassuming woman in galoshes who sat with her husband on a bench against the wall finally bid it in for $15,000. Said she: "It's beautiful. It all comes apart, you know, and makes lots of bracelets and brooches and things." Known to every Chicago gossip columnist was the historic Bonaparte-McCormick gilded-silver dinner service of 1,600 separate knives, forks, plates, dishes, platters, etc., weighing over 11,700 ounces. Made by Napoleon's favorite goldsmiths, Martin Guillaume Biennais and Jean Odiot, executed after the design of Architects Percier & Fontaine, the service was a wedding...
...Bridgeton, N. J., last week Editor Isadore Levine of the Bridgeton Record wrote in his weekly gossip-column: "A number of physicians' cars have been seen parked near a Burlington Avenue home. It must be an interesting 'case'." When...
...role of kingmaker, he jolted his listeners in the Granite State by announcing: "The New York Herald Tribune is plotting to boom the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1936 - Governor John G. Winant of New Hampshire." Last week, while New Hampshire was still buzzing over the Winchell gossip, sombre, spiritual John Gilbert Winant went to Manhattan to address the National Consumers' League. For the second time in 72 hours his name made national news. One of the brave little band of eight remaining Republican Governors. New Hampshire's Winant not only heartily endorsed Democratic President Roosevelt...
...dress maker has received from a woman whose name Betty Woods does not know. The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time Jerry Woods finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and made money. Betty Woods has bought before gossip sent the stock up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk the tip started, increased her winnings by selling short as the stock goes down. Similar in treatment, both stories start with hero and heroine dressing for dinner, continue at a dinner party, contain more conversation than...