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...does the U. S. State Department, that if the democracies are obliged to set up a bloc to protect their interests from fascist encroachments, the Roman Catholic Church may be a useful ally, not only as a powerful church but as a temporal state with one of the ablest diplomatic corps in Europe. As Franklin Roosevelt well knows, in Washington hard by the British Embassy, a palatial building is now being completed to house the Apostolic Delegation from the Vatican. Should events go so far that the U. S. decides to renew diplomatic relations (broken off in 1868) with...
Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, for 35 years in the U. S. Foreign Service, is rated one of the ablest career diplomats in U. S. employ. For the last seven years he has held down one of the toughest diplomatic assignments which the State Department has to hand out, the post of Ambassador to Japan. No small measure of his success has been the amiable, unostentatious way he has done...
...Riddle's great contribution to biology is the recognition and analysis of the major pituitary hormone prolactin, discovered in 1932. This substance is the stuff that makes mothers motherly. In Richmond last week Dr. Riddle and two of his ablest co-workers-Robert Wesley Bates, 34, and James Plummer Schooley, 34-summarized their work on prolactin. Dr. Riddle is also, more than any other U. S. biologist, a crusader for the propagation of biologic truth among plain people, and at a dinner for biologists he steamed them up on the opportunities and obligations of biology teachers...
...pieces, small, lyric, orchestral posies. There was no room on his plot for big symphonic and operatic hedgerows and shade trees. For this situation his biographer blames not Grieg but the character of the national soil. Norway's folk idioms were wild flowers, not acorns, and even the ablest husbandman could not make them sprout into oaks...
Died. Ray Ruddy, 27, swimmer who was considered one of the ablest water poloists in the world; day after he had fallen down a flight of stairs in his aunt's home and cracked his skull on a radiator; in Manhattan. Son of the most famed water poloist in history, Coach Joe Ruddy of the New York Athletic Club, brother of four other star swimmers, Ray Ruddy won the President's Cup for seven consecutive years, swam on three Olympic teams, won the National Long Distance Championship six years...