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...spring of 1929 a gangling, 16-year-old kid, with a Daily Racing Form bulging out of his coat pocket, ambled around the grounds at New England's fashionable St. Paul's School, taking bets on the Kentucky Derby. He was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., whose father had gone down with the Lusitania. His mother, twice remarried, owned a fine stable of thoroughbreds, and young Alfred, heir to some $20,000,000, was champing at the bit for the day when he could spend all his time among horses...
...generations, elopement. It was Romeo and Juliet, it was Our Town laid in the big city, it was as sentimental as Barrie, it was young love blossoming among the nightclubs. True, Mr. Lowther was getting pretty well along in years to be called, as his lawyer called him, "the kid." True, Eileen and George had been photographed together in nightclubs, and had been seen together for some time, nor was the illusion aided when the Hat Style News Bureau released a picture showing Mr. Lowther modeling one of John-Frederics' new creations...
...home, Weeping Willie had not been sacked, but he had a back seat while BBC took off its kid gloves, permitted anti-German cracks, digs at British home policy. Comic Tommy Handley twitted censorship with references to the Office of Twerps, the Ministry of Irritation, was a scream lampooning Hitler, whose mustache he once compared to a splash from a passing taxi. Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House...
...there any little old kid game that Harvard could get good enough to win at--or is it such a communistic place as to be completely hopeless? R. H. Goodell '04, Glendale...
Alexander hasn't played much in this territory before. As a matter of fact, the band hasn't been outside of New York City--but at the Roseland Ballroom there, it played for some weeks this summer to very heavy crowds. And don't let anyone kid you--no band is a success at the Roseland unless they are good. It, the Glen Island Casino on Long Island Sound, and the Palamar Ballroom on the Pacific Coast are considered the band-making spots of the country...