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...seemed more bashful than ever when Guffey opened up with a speech of thunderous praise. Then Guffey turned things over to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who as toastmaster heaped on more praise. From Henry Wallace, Archibald MacLeish, the Senate's Alben Barkley came more panegyrics, more acclaim...
...have Smuts out of the country, even though he covers himself with international acclaim as he did in Britain recently, is what the two rival nationalist groups want above all else. Last week they both wished that he had never been born 72 years ago. What had been dreamed up as a political masterpiece by their respective party chieftains in the sleepy little town of Ventersdorp turned into ridicule and recrimination...
...briefly and widely famed "nature man" of three decades ago; in Seaview, Wash. Emptyhanded, naked except for a loincloth, he entered the Maine woods for a man-v.-nature tussle in 1913, emerged two months later wearing a bearskin, a beard, a splendid sun tan, to win national acclaim and a 20-week vaudeville contract. Later it turned out he had spent most of the time hiding in a cabin with a Boston ex-publicity man, who had written Knowles's "birchbark diary," sent it back to the Boston Post, which printed it regularly, thus increased its circulation more...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne breeze through the lines with their usual versatility, assisted by a consistently good company. Playing the leader of a troupe of players with the same, vivacity that won him acclaim in "Amphitryon 38," Mr. Lunt is agile and amusing. He brightens up the stage with his flourishes and his tricks, spinning back and forth, "like a top." Miss Fontanne is demure and lovely as the romantic wife of a prosaic husband. Jack Smart excels as the dull West Indian Babbitt with the tyrannical past of a pirate...
Died. Emanuel Feuermann, 39, world-famed cellist; after an operation; in Manhattan. A child prodigy, he was a professor at the Cologne Conservatory at 16, was ousted by the Nazis as a teacher in Berlin in 1933, went on two world concert tours that won him acclaim as one of the great virtuosos, successor to No. 1 Cellist Pablo Casals...