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...deliberately that his table almost always finishes last). When Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, who referees all important bridge games, cried: "Von Zedtwitz has the contract at five diamonds," fat Hal Sims shook his shaggy head and groaned: "It can't be done." His team had set Mrs. Culbertson & partner two tricks at four spades on the same hand. At the other end of the room, there was a sharp slapping as little Baron von Zedtwitz. pinch-faced and emphatic, snapped out his cards. Cried Lieut. Gruenther: "The Baron makes five diamonds...
When the football season is over, Howard Jones leads an easy life. He is a partner and stockholder in his father's paper firm of Harding, Jones & Co., but he takes no active part in its affairs. He goes fishing in the Sierras, gives talks at business men's meetings, plays golf and bridge. Dressed in golf trousers, an old sweater and a grey hat pulled far down on his grooved and sunburned face, he potters about the North Hollywood bungalow where he lives with his wife, son, and four-year-old daughter Carolyn, who sprawls about...
...again. Often enough the entertainer would if he could, but too often the magic virtue has gone out of him. Wanton Mally makes pleasant enough reading, but. . . . M. de Grammont, banished from the French Court, whiles away exile in Charles II's London, soon finds a partner for his madcap follies in Jinny Wilmot, an attractively odd-looking Bright Young Person of the time. One night they go too far by roughing up a Bishop, who is shot in the scuffle. They flee to the country for their lives. Jinny leads them to the house of one Colpoys...
William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich specialize in Georgian mansions and clubhouses, at present the most depressed branch of the depressed profession of architecture. The firm's draughtsmen must not only draw but make models for their exacting clients. That gave Partner Delano an idea. Just back from Paris where he had been supervising the erection of the new U. S. Government Building fronting the Place de la Concorde, he set his idle apprentices to work designing dolls' houses. Last week with the Christmas season approaching genuine Delano & Aldrich doll houses were on sale...
William Aver ell Harriman resigned as chairman of Aviation Corp. to devote more time to his chairmanship of Union Pacific Railroad. He was succeeded by Robert Lehman, 41, his classmate at Yale (1913), partner in Lehman Bros., second cousin of Herbert Lehman, Democratic candidate for Governor of New York...