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Madame Chiang had been fingering her compact. Only those standing in the first few rows could see her as she arose; the jeweled wings of her China Air Force pin sparkled against the background of her long, black dress. She had never been afraid on visits to the front in China, she said; she was not so sure now as she saw the pencils flashing across the notebooks and copy-paper. "But I see flashes of smiles coming from your faces, so I feel I am among friends. . . ." The correspondents applauded. She was now in their hands...
...wife cooks gargantuan spaghetti dinners for the 300 relatives of the Salmaggi family who visit in droves of 40 or 50 at a time. An imposing 6-ft. figure, Salmaggi stalks Manhattan's streets in spats., a hat two feet in diameter, sporting a glittering diamond-studded lapel pin and a silver-headed cane that once belonged to Caruso. But in 1932 Impresarío Salmaggi left his company stranded in Chicago, having paid them off in unsigned checks...
...Saga of San Demetrio is a labor of patriotism by the grandniece of Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the author of the remarkable psychological study A Pin to See the Peepshow. Rather touchingly old-fashioned in its style, it is marred by such phrases as "the simple faith of sailormen" and "these unalterable British!" It suffers, inevitably, from being told at secondhand. But it is an honorable and exciting account of an exceedingly honorable, exciting-and true-event...
Scene: The music room in the palatial villa of Mrs. Lafcadio Mifflin at Newport. Mrs. Mifflin, a majestic woman in a slim-pin Bemberg corselet well boned over the diaphragm (Stern Brothers, fourth floor), is seated at the console of her Wurlitzer, softly wurlitzing to herself. Mr. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat. Inasmuch as there is a great, tawny cat stretched out alongside him, also wearing a porous-knit union suit, it is not immediately apparent which is Mifflin...
Though in the past two years the pinball machines about the Square have increased from six to 13, the future in wartime looks black to Ryan and Ruml, who claim that pin-ball repairers haven't the spare parts to keep the machines in serviceable condition for long...