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From his carefully exotic travels, carefully ebullient Richard Halliburton makes a lucrative living, writing books (The Flying Carpet, The Glorious Adventure) and lecturing before college students and women's clubs. Early in March, Rover Boy Halliburton set out from Hong Kong in a Chinese junk for San Francisco, intending to make a fashionably late appearance at the Fair. Fortnight ago the junk was reported lost in mid-Pacific, at week's end was still missing.
Columnist Dorothy Thompson, after scanning her acquaintances, listed those she considers top-notch ''party material." Among them: Englishman Noel Coward, Playwright Clare Boothe, Cinemactor W. C. Fields, Critic Clifton ("Kip") Fadiman, Beatrice Lillie, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Henry L. Mencken, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Sinclair Lewis. Rejected flatly by Columnist Thompson: Orson Welles, Neville Chamberlain, Mme Chiang Kaishek, Dorothy Thompson.
Appointed queen of the annual Shenandoah (Va.) Apple Blossom Festival was Genevieve Garner, granddaughter of Vice President John Nance Garner.