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Lions of London's midsummer social season this year have not been belted earls but simple U.S. journalists. Publisher George Backer of the New York Post, Editor Herbert Agar of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Radioracle Raymond Gram Swing have dined, winedir" by the London Daily Herald's veteran Columnist Hannen Swaffer, Miss Thompson had to install three stenographers and two male social secretaries in her suite at the Savoy to answer mail and arrange engagements. So busy was she that Lady Reading, relict of the late great jurist, was unable to make a date to see her. Later Lady Reading...
...Committee was organized in Manhattan with 250 sponsors. Its members "accept the fact that we are at war," pledged to "do whatever is necessary to insure Hitler's defeat." Honorary chairman: Carter Glass. Typical backers: Colonel William Donovan, Authors Rupert Hughes, Edna Ferber, Publisher John Farrar, Editor Herbert Agar, Historian Walter Millis. But there was better evidence of the state of U.S. opinion...
...Direct leakage of food is not an important issue. Indirect benefits to Germany are enormous. According to William Agar of Columbia "ten shiploads of wheat, say 50,000 tons, would release about 187,000 tons of potatoes, from which the Germans could make 17,000 tons of alcohol . . . enough fuel for 500 planes to raid London nightly for two months...
...malaria microbe stained and swollen with purple agar-agar...
...Agar lived in England from 1928 to 1934, serving as the literary editor of the English Review, foreign correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal, and, for part of the time, attache of the American Embassy in London. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winner "The People's Choice," "The Land of the Free," and "The Pursuit of Happiness...