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...field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner Welles's luncheon with his old diplomatic crony, Leland Harrison, the Minister to Bern. But unpublicized and mysterious was another U. S. Ambassador's visit. Squarejawed, grey-haired John Cudahy, newly appointed U. S. Minister to Belgium, left his embassy, entered Zürich undetected, got past the reception desk at the hotel without leaving his name, late at night departed as secretly...
Walance S. Davies 3G, of Floral Park, N. Y.; Thomas P. Dillon 1G, of Clinton, Mo.; Erich A. Fivian 2G, of Bern, Switzerland; Donald L. Foley, A.B. Colgate '38, of Syracuse, N. Y.; Edward W. Fox, assistant in History at Harvard, of Cambridge, Mass.; Hans W. Gatzke 1G, of Krefold, Germany; James E. Gunckel, Oxford, O., now graduate student at Miami University; Ralph S. Henderson now teaching at MacJannet Country Day School, St. Cloud, France; Henry R. Hope 1G, of Darien, Conn.; Andrew O. Jaszi 1G, of Oberlin, O.; Milan W. Jerabek, of Minneapolis, Minn., now teaching at University...
...McClure, retired, who installed the first telephone in the State). Off shore, Coast Guard cutters bore observers. At Craven County was ebullient Tom Haywood, who won brief fame by inventing a rotary kicking machine for citizens who should kick themselves. At New Bern was Cap'n Tom Daniel, 72, who at 52 insisted on fighting in the last war, came home minus an ear and eye, but did very well with what he had left last week...
Taking up the fortunes of Julian Bern, cosmopolitan young English intellectual, where Europa dropped them. Author Briffault discovers his hero holidaying in Belgium with Zena, his current mistress. War has been declared, and the German invasion quickly comes too close for comfort. Julian and Zena escape to England, hoping to live there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors...
...rank with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Blonde Bombshell, China Seas, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first husband, with whom she eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went to Hollywood. Her second was Producer Paul Bern, a suicide in 1932. Her third, Cameraman Hal Rosson, she divorced in 1934 for reading in bed. For the last two years her most regular Hollywood escort was Cinemactor William Powell. When she fell ill last fortnight, Jean Harlow was at work on Saratoga, with Clark Gable...