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...Timesmen Hugh Byas, G. E. R. Gedye, P. J. Philip, Frederick Birchall, Augur, Walter Duranty are all British subjects. Louis Lochner, A. P.'s Berlin chief, was Henry Ford's secretary on the Peace Ship, is married to a German. Robert (Pearson &) Allen is so sore at Hitler that"he has his wife drilling with...
...London last week, after the ship had safely left the danger zone. Newscaster Vladimir Poliakoff ("Augur") offered an explanation: Washington was neatly thwarting a Nazi kidnap attempt. His story...
...Indoor Athletic Building. Harvard has a record of three easy victories and a heart-breaking defeat at the hands of a stellar Seton Hall team a week ago. Bowdoin will be unable to bring a sabre team, and the Crimson's strength in foil and epee does not augur well for the Maine team...
Strangest aspect of the world since it came under the spell of Adolf Hitler is its uncertainty: the whimsical nature of events as they unravel from the Führer's haunted mind. Even heads of governments nowconsult the writings of journalists like Pertinax, Augur, Tabouis, who are reputed to have secret sources of knowledge about things to come. But common men look for guidance where they have always found it: in the stars...
Vladimir Poliakoff (Augur), White Russian newspaperman who snoops around odd corners of European chancelleries and sometimes pulls out something good, last week reported to the New York Times that British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had sent, through an unnamed emissary, to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop an odd but simple and direct message: "If you want war you can have war." Almost as defiant was Prime Minister Chamberlain, who delivered the most direct warning he has yet given to the Reich and boasted about Britain's newly found military power...