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...department store windows) are done. Vicarious satisfaction and a lot of laughs are the result. Efficient and mechanical, Julia Scott (Miss Colbert) runs a department store office that gets cut of hand as soon as she leaves. But her suppressed desire is to marry her boss, the aristocratic Richard Barclay (melvyn Douglas), who is as efficient as she and even more mechanical. In this she succeeds, clearing up a nice domestic mess (spoiled child, neurotic sister, filching servants, and all) on the side, only to find that she is a wife in name only. Julia's efforts to shake...
HARVARD J. V. YALE J. V. Harkness, l.e. l.e., Brown Radway, l.t. l.t., Gardner Baum, l.g. l.g., Castle Eichler, c. c., Watson Caldwell, r.g. r.g., Lindeke J. Gardner, r.t. r.t., Higgins Pafford, r.e. r.e., Proxmire Owen, q.b. q.b., Murtha Lewenstein, l.h.b. l.h.b., Barclay Stuart, rh.b. r.h.b., Smith Appel, fb. f.b., Runnals...
...which his State Department recently recognized (TIME, June 24). His choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife and two débutante daughters, 20 & 21. Said the Baltimore Afro-American of Minister-designate Walton: "His indorsements for the position come from...
...Liberia, besides having no health service, had no budget, no accounts, no money, that its trouble was, as Lord Cecil put it, "the incompetence of the Government and corruption-but rather more incompetence than corruption." The League offered to send Liberia a Government adviser to set things right. President Barclay proudly declined. The League threatened to expel Liberia, then looked up its own constitution, found it had no authority...
...swatting mosquitoes and tropical vermin. Finally he proposed a deal: Mr. Firestone would cut interest on his Liberian loan from 7% to 5%; Liberia would frown on the slave traffic, try to do some-thing about disease; Secretary Hull would grant diplomatic recognition and send Liberia a minister; President Barclay would accept a "foreign" (i. e. white) adviser...