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...This week he published the great novel-For Whom the Bell Tolls. He took the title from a passage by Preacher Poet John Donne: "No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, . . . any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee...
Miss Sorel was in a receptive mood as your correspondent put the bee on her at the Ritz bar, where she was lingering over a daiquiri. Her outburst against the Radcliffe Amazons came as a surprise, as she otherwise had nothing but the best to say about Harvard and its environs...
This week ten famed newscasters from the three major networks will foregather in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria to join in an aerial storytelling bee. Wired for sound by NBC, the tale-spinners' seminar will include such lights as Raymond Gram Swing, Elmer Davis, H. V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell. Purpose of the broad cast: to pay tribute to Lowell Thomas on his tenth anniversary in radio...
Even his mildest critics say that Beaverbrook is "slightly cracked." But a Canadian columnist summed up the general opinion of him thus: "Positive, bee; comparative, beaver; superlative, Beaverbrook." To keep Britain's aircraft factories running during a Blitzkrieg is a job comparable to running General Motors' 38 U. S. plants in an earthquake...
...face swollen and red from an encounter with a belligerent bee, former Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha banged the speaker's stand in the House of Commons as he demanded "imagination and inspiring action" in settling the Irish question. "Hitler's triumph," he shouted, "can be prevented only by a united policy in Ireland. . . . [Germany's] occupation of Ireland would cover our only remaining flank and make the arrival of those supplies from America on which we are counting most hazardous...