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...couple of frogs were dining at the Ritz. Complained one: "You haven't spoken to me all evening. You're angry at me." "It isn't that at all," explained the other, "I just can't talk tonight. I've got a man in my throat...
...Wert , Capa and I live at Lancaster - Mary Welsh is at the Ritz - others are bivouacking at the Grand Hotel. But we all get together at the Hotel Scribe, and almost any morning you can see Wert, Capa, Walton, Welsh and Landry lined up at the rail of the balcony planning the day's operations...
...Howard Walter Florey, thin-lipped, bespectacled, Australian-born half of the famed Florey-Fleming penicillin team, after twelve days at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton was caught by a reporter, ejaculated: "It is not my practice to be interviewed by the press. I'd much rather be let alone...
...supper dance," kept a famed blue book of 2,000 acceptable young men (Miss Cutting's List), admitted only 100 debutantes to her select list each season. Overseer at hundreds of social functions, she arranged the Joseph E. Davies-Marjorie Post Hutton wedding, the Ritz-Carlton reception for Queen Marie of Rumania...
Bromfield unveils Anna Bolton, daughter of an Ohio scrubwoman, as a glittering creature of wealth in Neville Chamberlain's London. He takes her from this lavishly mad prewar society, spots her at the Ritz in Paris while France is falling, has her strafed in her Rolls-Royce in a roadful of refugees, finally sets her down in Unoccupied France to run a village canteen, care for a motherless baby, marry a member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted...