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Apropos of the story in TIME, March 10, about the diapers of the infant son of the John Roosevelts, there is a story making the rounds that even before that time the President's son knew his onions, when it came to diapers.
Pope Pius XII last week discharged a Christian duty apropos of Christmas. In Vatican City courtiers close to the Apostolic Throne remarked sadly that there has been fighting on the last six Christmas Days - in Ethiopia, Spain and Europe, not to mention the Far East.* But the Pope did not...
But the Tokyo press labored mightily to raise Puppet Wang in Japanese esteem. Unlike most other peoples, the Japanese like their statesmen boozy. Several Japanese Premiers have been notoriously copious tosspots. It was therefore a great build-up of Chinese Puppet Wang in the eyes of Japanese when the Tokyo...
Apropos of the review last week of Toscanini's recording of the Beethoven Fifth, lest you think us presumptuous, here is a review from the Gramophone Record Shop in New York City, Mecca and Delphic Oracle for classical record buyers:
Meanwhile, even the official German radio had taken a clumsy crack at quotation spotting. Bellowed Nazi Broadcaster Hans Fritsche, apropos of His Majesty's address: "An unholy cause cannot be transformed into a holy one simply by disguising it behind a quotation from the Bible!"