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...Moscow for the Soviet's annual air show flew Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...friend & collaborator Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose island adjoins his off the coast of France, Dr. Alexis Carrel told a French newshawk: "I pray you, do not try to see him. Since the great misfortune and trial that befell him, Colonel Lindbergh has changed a great deal. He is hypersensitive and wants only quiet and to be forgotten. Do not harass him. He has suffered enough. Leave him alone...
...summarize in one book all State and Federal antitrust laws, fair-trade laws, laws on advertising, on trademarks, on chain stores, on co-operative marketing. An economic division will try to find what effects these laws have upon consumer costs, distribution, chain-store growth, etc. In charge is lean Augustus Heath Martin Jr., who was successively sales-promotion and wholesale manager for Chrysler and Willys-Overland and southeastern manager for Union Bag & Paper Corp., joined the Administration as coordinator for the National Bituminous Coal Commission. He first expressed his talent for puttering by designing an early motorcycle...
Last week Lawrence Augustus Wilkins, director of foreign language study in New York City's public high schools, announced that 5,000 New York schoolboys and schoolgirls soon would begin to exchange letters with an equal number of French youngsters. The U. S. children will write in French, the French in English, each will correct the other. But the French Correspondance Scolaire Internationale, sponsor of this friendly and educational gesture, insisted on one restriction which Mr. Wilkins could explain only as an old French custom: French boys may write to U.S. girls, but U. S. boys may not write...
...liberal spirit is clearly in the ascendant'' in Franco Spain, he brought upon himself unmeasured condemnation from dozens of liberal pro-Loyalist writers. Smartly, Mr. Sedgwick returned the blows. During Editor Sed-wick's recent travels, his place has been taken by wiry, effervescent Editor Edward Augustus Weeks Jr. La.;t week, 40-year-old "Ted" Weeks assumed the hallowed title of editor-in-chief; 66-year-old Ellery Sedgwick, still spry and still owner of the Atlantic, will continue to be its dominant editorial voice...