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Other merchandisers gave their analyses of general conditions. They found that the railroads Lad just ended a happy year; that the automobile industry had again confounded pessimists; that 1925 set another record for building; that steel, silk, wool, cotton and rayon were prospering. Then a banker, O. H. Cheney, Vice President of the American Exchange-Pacific National Bank, oriented once and for all the importance of the dry-goods industry, and answered those supercilious ones who have jeered at dry-goods men. "I think," he said, "that the department store might be considered the greatest single factor in raising...
...67th birthday (TIME, Feb. 8) was still under way. The former Kaiser embraced his son, whom he had not seen for two years, "with tears in his eyes." The one-time Crown Prince "displayed his usual gayety." Later, Wilhelm's consort, Hermine, donned "a striking pink and black silk gown and a diamond tiara." Thus attired, she welcomed Herr Mendelssohn, her husband's chief banker, and many a titled Dutch and German guest to "a grand reception, at which all present were...
Wednesday. Marvelous morning. Patou called me up and asked if I should like to try on my dresses. Would I like to try them on! An old-rose coat trimmed with fur, a satin cyclamen evening frock, a white silk tennis dress wonderfully cut, one walking dress of rose, another in pale grey. This is simply too divine, I thought; it just isn't true. But when I jumped out of the car at Patou's, there were all the reporters sitting around, staring at the manikins, the frocks and me, like morticians at a flower-show. Dieu...
...reporters said C. F. looked like Jack Dempsey smashing away at the net with his jaw way out. And that I was pale with concentration. Perhaps I was foolish to change from driving to lobbing against Suzanne, but it seemed best at the time. She was like a silk whirlwind in a salmon pink sweater. She talked constantly, while I pressed my lips tight shut, like President Coolidge. Her drives and placements came my way every time. I tried to drive her back with lobs, but both she and the Baron slaughtered one after another. He hit so hard...
Married. Miss Frances Davison, daughter of the late famed financier Henry Pomeroy Davison (partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. and Wartime head of the American Red Cross), sister of F. Trubee Davison (Chairman of the National Crime Commission), to Ward-Chney, son of famed silk merchant Charles Cheney; at Locust Valley...