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Bristling with American Legion pins. William Edward ("Bill") Easterwood Jr., big breezy Texan and vice-commander of the Legion, was in Rome last week. He called on Italy's King Victor Emanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini, afterwards confided to the Press: "Premier Mussolini asked for the pin I wore on my hat and I pinned it on his lapel. I offered the King the one I had on my coat and pinned it on his lapel. He said he was very proud to wear it." Thus Vice-Commander Eas terwood thought he had made Italy's King...
Last week swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee wound up his efforts to pin scandal on J. P. Morgan & Co. by trying to prove that its partners had been evading income taxes (see p. 13). Not content to let the inquiry end upon this note, the House of Morgan countered by making two statements. First was a memorandum submitted by John P. Morgan answering Mr. Pccora's criticisms...
...150th running of the race. To view it came King George in black morning coat and pin-striped trousers, Queen Mary in rose and beige. Nodding to lords & ladies, they marched ceremoniously to their box on the finish line, joined 300,000 countrymen in the cry: ''They...
...sluices his gnarled face in the limpid pool. He dashes through the room, adding touch after touch to his creation of sartorial ineffability. His cutaway in place, he adds a final caressing stroke to his ascot, bathes its center in the refulgent aura of a heavy gold pin, and descends the innumerable stairs...
Beauty To International Beauty Shop Owners convening in Manhattan were exhibited these detachable gadgets: colored fingernails which can be shaped & filed; gold-plated nose-shapers, worn inside, to make straight noses saucy; lip covers 1 100,000th of an inch thick; courtplaster tacks to pin back jutting ears; hats with curls of real hair dangling from the back...