People: Matter of Opinion

In Paris, Sir Charles Mendl, 79, whose late wife, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, ruled the international smart set with a queenly hand, announced that he had wooed and won a 35-year-old Parisian brunette, Mme. Yvonne Riley. The secret of his success? "Young men talk too much about themselves. Old men don't, or shouldn't. I let women talk about themselves, and they love it."

In San Francisco, sometime White House Favorite Jonathan Daniels moistened a finger to the 1952 convention winds: "I don't know if the President will be available," he said, but Senators Paul...

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