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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goats out of the armament maker appears to have anesthetized the national press; the mouthed righteousness of the political idealists in their scramble to mulct credit from the cause of peace has dangerously perverted a constructive situation into a heydey for the Hearsts. Internationalism may or may not be born to blush unseen in this ugly age: no question but it's a worthwhile goal. Yet to seek it open-mouthed, like a herd of whimpering rabbits that can't see the forest for the dandelions, like the tiger-lilies that wilt away their stamen in anti-war meetings, like...
...Born. To Sir Walter Gilbey, 75, British sportsman; and Lady Gilbey (Marion Broadhead), 39; a son; in London...
Married. Don Jaime, 26, second son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Emanuela de Dampierre. 20, granddaughter of Princess Ruspoli Poggio di Suasa, (née Josephine Curtis of Boston); in Rome. Born a deaf-mute, Don Jaime has learned to speak croakingly...
...business interview is reported to be 4½ min. for business, 30 sec. for greetings and farewells. People lucky enough to get inside his crowded office in the Post Office Building find a distinguished old gentleman with a snowy Vandyke beard, twinkling eyes, rippling humor. New Hampshire-born and educated, he has, in his 62 years, published the Boston Traveler, superintended the Associated Press's New England division, conducted a Boston investment house, operated a shipyard in Florida, helped found the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...Author. Thomas Clayton Wolfe's career closely parallels that of his hero, Eugene Gant. Born in Asheville, N. C. in 1900, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at 19, then took an M.A. at Harvard, where he studied under the late Professor George Pierce Baker in his famed 47 Workshop. After traveling and studying in Europe he got a job as instructor in the English department at New York University. Five years ago he resigned to devote himself to his magnum opus, went to Europe again on a Guggenheim Fellowship. An omnivorous reader, he says...