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...received news pictures of a stately private palace, with immense Ionic columns and heroic figures on the roof (see cut) in which Mrs. Simpson is to live on her return to London, according to both Associated Press and United Press which announced "she will move in early in Octo-ber...
...Reader Mallon delve deeper into baseball statistics and he will be less amused by TIME'S technically accurate expression of Di Maggie's achievement. Since records are kept of the total num-ber of bases each player hits for during a season and since eight bases in one inning equaled an American League record, it was necessary to state both the number of bases and the manner in which they were scored. Conceivably a player could make two three-base hits and one two-base hit all in one inning, thus totaling eight bases without a homerun...
...deep-voiced Roswell Gray Ham is 45, married, has two sons. Before receiving a captain's commission in the Wartime Marine Corps, he had taught at University of Washington and University of California. After the War he went to Yale's Graduate School, has been a mem ber of Yale's English Department since 1920. When he goes to his new post in September 1937, after President Woolley officiates at next year's centenary celebra tion, Mount Holyoke girls can expect a change in presidential speaking fare. President-elect Ham's specialty is not Peace...
Parade. Then they all went out to review a sample parade of the new German Army, Adolf Hitler's gift to the German people. While the band played Deutschland über Alles and mounted kettledrummers performed traditional feats of skill, 350 light whippet tanks camouflaged ready for action rolled down Unter den Linden and the Charlottenburger Chaussée. Behind came yellow and green armored cars filled with riflemen; armored motorcycles; machine-gun companies; anti-aircraft batteries with searchlights and direction finders; motorized heavy artillery and, to show that the Army is also ready for the swamps of Eastern...
...Ziegfeld star, comes under the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer routine. Its result is more surprising. At once biography and able extravaganza, The Great Ziegfeld approximates, more closely than any show he ever produced himself, the Ziegfeldian ideal. Pretentious, packed with hokum and as richly sentimental as an Irving Ber lin lyric, it is, as such, top-notch entertainment...