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...Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon was a gas, designed the buttons that still grace the coatees of West Point Cadets. Most of the innumerable Nazi uniforms sprang from the fertile brain of Hermann Wilhelm Goring. Lieut-General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden- Powell, authority on pig-sticking and defender of Mafeking, designed the uniforms of the Boy Scouts...
Newshawks sought out prosperous, middle-aged Pressagent Lee, found him at Baden, Germany, when the House Committee inquiring into "unAmerican activities" within the U. S. made public the testimony he had given it in executive session last May. Mr. Lee, by whom John D. Rockefeller was metamorphosed from a corporate monster into a benevolent old philanthropist, told the committee that he had for years been public relations counsel at $3,000 a year for the U. S. affiliate of Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie, the great German dye trust. Last year, when Hitler came into power, the home office...
...likes to raise and show horses. He is not a Catholic, not even a churchgoer. Born of poor parents some 60 years ago in the hills near French Lick, he made his way alone, accumulated a fortune in the hotel business and in American Circus Corp. At West Baden, a mile from French Lick where the late Thomas ("Tom") Taggart, Indiana's longtime Democratic boss, operated a famed spa (Pluto Water), Mr. Ballard built a handsome 500-room hotel, surrounded by 585 landscaped acres. Until the Depression West Baden Springs Hotel prospered. With the decrease in business, Mr. Ballard...
...train a Jesuit under the militant principles laid down by Ignatius Loyola,* requires 15 years from the time the candidate leaves high school. West Baden College, primarily a graduate school of science and philosophy, will take Jesuit scholastics after they complete two years of ascetic theology and two of classics, before they embark upon three years of teaching, four of theology and one of ascetic theology. Rev. Aloysius Henry Rohde, assistant to the Jesuit provincial in Chicago, will be the school's temporary rector until a full one is appointed by that most formidable cleric, the Superior General...
...Detroit Derby, his fourth important stake race of the season, setting a new track record for 1 1/16 miles and adding $19,500 to his $77,000 winnings. ¶Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris: 15- points to 10½; a match of 26 games which started April 1 in Baden Baden, against Efim D. Bogoljubow. for the chess championship of the world; in Berlin...