Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven-story red-brick former apartment house that is now the U. S. Embassy, No. 1 Grosvenor Square, he was able to cable the State Department an almost complete list of Americans aboard. Two days later, in tension and in shirt sleeves, Joe Kennedy spent his 51st birthday working at his desk...
...importance of Turkey in the great question mark of Mediterranean strategy (see p. 22) was emphasized in Paris by the welcome given last week to Behic Erkin, new Turkish Ambassador. President Albert Lebrun made more fuss over receiving this dignitary than he did about his own 68th birthday, which fell simultaneously. Encouraged were the French when Ambassador Erkin assured the world that Turkey was 100% with the Allies. Said he: "Human progress is a product of peace. . . . It is this ideal that is at the basis of France's and Turkey's policy. . . ." Giving Mr. Erkin scarcely time...
Then & Now. Last week J. P. Morgan, who in 1914 helped stem war's invasion of the market place, had no part in doing so again. With his 72nd birthday only a week off, he was on the high seas (on his way home from grouse shooting in Scotland), cut off from all communication with the world as the Queen Mary, with radio silenced, sped toward New York...
...must to all men, death came last week to the youngest, most thoroughgoing dictator in the Western Hemisphere. At La Paz, loftiest capital of the Americas, sad-eyed, 35-year-old President Lieut. Colonel German Busch gave a birthday party in his home for his Japanese brother-in-law, Kovichi Seito. About 5:30 a.m.. a few minutes after the young Dictator had retired to an upper room, his guests heard a shot. They found German Busch with a bullet hole in his temple. Quick surgery failed to save him. Suicide, escape from nervous exhaustion induced by his labors...
...illustrated collection of ten stories and sketches, is authentic Bemelmans brew. From his hotel background (Bemelmans once managed a small swanky restaurant on Manhattan's upper East side) comes the story of Gabriel, the perfect maitre d'hotel, who revealed his true genius at the super-swanky birthday party for Mrs. George Washington Kelly, the story of another maitre whose phobia was The Blue Danube. Among minor classics of travel literature is Bemelmans' account of a small island off the coast of France, where Madame Clamart, because of an unfortunate experience with a U. S. sailor, barred...