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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew it was all right as soon as Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff took him in to meet Joseph Stalin, in whose face Laval saw much the same calm, woodchuck cunning he sees in his own mirror. The two got along famously, two born listeners who knew what they were doing. Stalin was so pleased with Laval that he prolonged the conversation through luncheon, the first time he had ever broken bread with a Capitalist Foreign Minister. It was also the longest visit he had ever had with a foreign official...
...Detroit devout Stanislaus Felix Hausner, Polish born aviator, who once spent eight days clinging to the tail of a wrecked plane in mid-Atlantic, crashed to his death while stunting over a Pilsudski memorial service, but of all the memorial services throughout the world, the most dramatic incident occurred in the town of Rowne on the Polish-Ukraine frontier. While bells tolled and villagers hurried to the church for a Requiem Mass, a shot was suddenly fired from the Russian side of the frontier. Polish guards tumbled out, rifles in hand. Up rode a long-coated Soviet cavalryman begging permission...
...Born. To Roger Wolfe Kahn, 27, aviator, orchestra leader, son of the late great Otto Hermann Kahn; and Edith May Nelson Kahn, 24, daughter of onetime Representative John Edward Nelson of Maine, whom he married two years ago after being divorced by the present Mrs. Jack Dempsey; a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...
Divorced. Maurice Wertheim, Manhattan banker, Theatre Guild cofounder, new owner of The Nation (TIME, May 6), divorced husband of Alma Morgenthau Wiener (sister of the Secretary of the Treasury); by Mrs. Ruth White Warfield Wertheim; in Reno. Same day she married Alexander Smallens, Russian-born orchestra conductor...
...ensured against that. For his recipe for poetry is apparently a dash if wit, a sprinkle of imagery, and a pinch of smut. The last condiment is easy to find despite his commendable ruse in transliterating into Greek certain English monosyllables which always arouse Mr. Dirty Mind, the true-born censor. There is a blank page, whose missing text appears only in the holograph edition, and the penny arcade reader may well purchase that--at $99 a copy--if he wants Cummings straight. No. 16, as it is, has quite a bounce to it, and would hardly be given...