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Last week the petite Baroness was in Manhattan to study best U. S. birth control methods. Gowned in a kimono of blue silk wound with an elaborate. flowered obi (sash) the Baroness said: "Birth control alone will not solve Japan's problems. They will not be met until the economic system is changed. . . . Birth control will lighten the burden of ignorance and distress...
...Pabst Corp. when one of their brews won the blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair. So pleased were the Pabsts that they called their leading brew after the Blue Ribbon which they attached to every bottle. When near beer brought lean days a blue strip of paper supplanted the silk ribbon but Pabst stuck to its trademark...
Divorced, Ruth Goldstein; by Julius J. Goldstein, Manhattan silk merchant; in Manhattan. Grounds: misconduct with Cartoonist Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...
...guard. A natural reaction will be to read the news with a cold and hasty eye before passing on to the Harvard starting line-up. And again, all things considered, it was not so long ago that glistening white canvas billowed and welled above Sever Quadrangle, while below, Silk hats mingled with or mine hoods during the advancement of certain men from one stage in the society of scholars to another...
...than might have been expected. The outer rooms were festive to the point of turbulence, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt, sitting at a long table in an inner room, was not available to all comers. He received Al Smith. Jack Dempsey got in for a moment. Bernard Mannes Baruch (in silk topper), curly-headed "Sonny" Whitney (who had not won his race for Congress but was supposedly in line for a sub-Cabinet job), Boss McCooey of Brooklyn, President Sam Levy of the Borough of Manhattan-all such, of course, had access. But through all their cordialities and rejoicing, Franklin Roosevelt...