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...Coolidges were our guests here July 3-6 (Fourth being Cal-birthday), before they went up to Plymouth. Mrs. Coolidge then wore the pretty crocheted white lace (note: Mrs. Stearns wasn't positive about the fabric-thought it might be silk or silk-and-wool) beret, with a small feather or some other ornamental touch. Her black-hair was tightly folded up under the cap. The resultant smooth hairline at the neck probably gave careless observers the bob idea...
...About 25 mi. from small Eldorado, Ohio. †Writer (books, magazine articles), poet (Lace Maker of Segovia), authority on Spanish and Spanish-American affairs, son of California's late great Collis Potter Huntington. His wife is Sculptress Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington (small bronzes, large Joans-of-Arc in half a dozen cities, flagpoles in Manhattan). *For his indefatigable daily despatches to the Times from Little America dramatizing the exploits of the Byrd Expedition, Correspondent Russell Owen received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism...
...holes punched in every duralumin girder to lighten it until it looks like a piece of metal lace (yet the girder is made stronger than before by flanging the edges of the holes...
...popped busy, plump little Conductor Fritz Reiner. He had just stepped off the boat from Italy the day before his first Stadium concert. Gustily he spoke of his summer doings. He had conducted in Milan, Naples, had tried to reduce at Marienbad, had peered about Venice for antiques and lace. With five cameras (two cinema) he and his wife had photographed each other climbing up the Jungfrau, standing in front of Dr. Axel Munthe's San Michele on Capri...
...Materials: wool, tweed, much velvet, taffeta, lace, crepe. Novelties: diarachnak, a new double rough tweed, and dogaliah, a rough wool filled with long white dog hair...