Opposite Manhattan's topless towers, on Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier, the tightly phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures—Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends...
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