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Last week death came to Nobel Prize Winner Sir Austen Chamberlain's widow," the Lady of Locarno." Ivy Muriel, Lady Chamberlain, may be remembered longest because one day in Switzerland she gave what cables called "the world's most im portant picnic." This was at Locarno in 1925. Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose...
...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...
...Austen Lake of the American: "By virtue of my official position as linesman in the game, I'm prevented from predicting the winner, or commenting on the respective merits of the two teams...
...Professor: But that's not the whole story. A football is still a funny shaped ball and takes peculiar bounces. And to quote a referee for a change, Austen Lake says that "there is an emotional ebb and flow in the nervous system of football kids which sometimes washes out the energy of the mighty and floods the forces of the weak. Speaking of referees, what did you think of Red Friesell and his third consecutive stormy week? I certainly hope the poor fellow isn't a bundle of nerves by now and makes a hash out of the Harvard...
...year he married Annie Vere Cole, and during his long climb to the top she encouraged, guided and warned him. She remembered names he forgot, supplied the human touch that was lacking in his personality. Although he was eclipsed for years by his more colorful half-brother Austen, just before Sir Austen's death he rose rapidly. When he succeeded Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister in 1937, the London Star characterized him as "practical as a plumber, precise as a timetable...