“THRILLED TO DEATH”
HIGH TIMES IN LONDON PRETTIEST AMERICAN TYPISTES. U£-A. NAVAL "PARTY” ARRIVES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 6-5 p.m. London, Jan. 18. Seventeen of America’s prettiest typistes, attired in Washington’s latest fashions, arrived with the American naval delegation. They are getting even greater publicity than the other odd members of the party, several of whom characteristically claim descent from the original Mayfair passengers. It is revealed that the delegation s ship carried its own beer brewing plant until the publicity given to it caused the State Department at Washington to wireless. “Throw the brewery overboard.” They did. Seven of the "clurks,” as the girls describe themselves, belong to the State Department and ten to the Navy Department. “There was an awful scramble for this job,” they explained, "hundreds and hundreds applied. We are thrilled' to death.” It is stated that the whole delegation pooled their resources, amounting to £40,000. The living expenses of the party at the Ritz and Mayfair Hotels are estimated at £lOOO a day.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1930, Page 11
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