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...armload of packages, got in each other's way. Inside the apartment she found that the movers had not yet arrived with the first load; they never have. When they did get there, naturally, they decided to knock off for lunch before unloading. Mrs. Roosevelt went back uptown for her own lunch. She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho...
...This is Serious." Air-raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies kidded earnest women block wardens until the tearful and embarrassed women gave up their jobs...
...Eleanor Roosevelt gave up her small hideaway apartment in Greenwich Village, moved her stuff to the family mansion uptown to save rent and air the mansion occasionally.....Vichy announced that the $2,000,000 art collection confiscated from fugitive Maurice de Rothschild would be auctioned for the national relief fund. ....The widow of Auto Pioneer John F. Dodge ordered the $3,000,000, 110-room, untenanted Dodge castle in suburban Detroit torn down so that the land could be sold....Sculptor Heinz Warneke's two 31-ton stone eagles, brief ornaments of Washington's Social Security Building till...
...largest commercial art gallery in the world put on a show last week. The show's opening reception, in a huge duplex suite on uptown Fifth Avenue, drew 5,800 art lovers. But bigger news than the show was the commercial success of the Associated American Artists' Galleries. The attraction at the opening was an exhibition of recent paintings by Thomas Hart Benton. The splash that it made was a demonstration of the fact that able mechanizing methods have, for one group of artists, made art for art's sake a paying business for the first time...
...King of Swing, as everyone knows, and Artie Shaw plays high notes and was married to Lana Turner. You have no other choice. Edmond Hall is a rather unassuming colored musician who has been playing around for some time now, with a lot of bands you hear uptown, like Claude Hopkins and Billy Hioks. These days Hall is working with Red Allen's band down at Cafe Society, and you may or may not have noticed him. He never won anybody's Down Beat poll, and I can't recall his being photographed at Ciro's, lingering over a long...