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...fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth (70 lire, one dime,). Then dinner at the hotel (veal scaloppine, salad, spaghetti, bread, butter, cheese, wine, coffee, pastry). An evening for two at one of the small nightclubs-and a ride home in a carriage-cost...
...Lapham and George S. Dearborn. Starting with a fleet of windjammers, his grandfather and Dearborn had built A-H into the biggest U.S. intercoastal steamship line. New President Lapham knew that his job was no sinecure: "I'm being thrown off the dock to see if I can swim." West Coast shipping men were betting that he could...
Next day, dressed in slacks and sports coat after a swim in the Dead Sea, Bernstein told newsmen exuberantly: "The Palestine Orchestra is potentially one of the greatest in the world. It should make a trip to the States next fall, but first it needs two solid months of real hard work under a single conductor." He gazed dreamily out of the window of Jerusalem's modernistic Eden Hotel and mused, "I hope I can be the guy to pull that...
Ultimately the judges wee forced to choose one afternoon and one evening dress. "The neatest neck-line in years" won the former contest, while a costume entitled "Just right for a woodland nymph" copped the latter. The pajamas "to slip into after a swim," lost out primarily because nobody could figure out when they should be worn--although Vaughn had a knowing look...
Kansas City high-school girls were wearing bracelets on their ankles, four-in-hand ties with their blouses. At one high school, girls had to be going steady with a boy to be in the social swim, but also had to give them "the pitch" and get a new one every few weeks because it was agreed that boys were terrible...