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...Rome went that swarthy, thick-lipped, beady-eyed onetime butcher boy, His Excellency Pierre Laval, French Foreign Minister. There was nothing democratic about his reception. In Il Duce's opinion the sloppiness of Democracies leads to tragedies like the assassination of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 15). It was with Barthou that Mussolini began the secret negotiations which came to a climax last week. The two men never met, dickered through ambassadors. To ensure that nobody should be able to assassinate Pierre Laval on Italian soil last week, his train clicked over tracks guarded every...
...whom a stop watch is as conventional an accessory for public bathing as a pair of trunks, Flanagan last week was making what sportswriters call a "comeback'' at an age when many of his contemporaries are barely learning how-to swim. Son of a retired Miami butcher, Ralph Flanagan was discovered in 1926 at a newsboys' party, by Swimming Coach Steve Forsyth, who developed Katherine Rawls. By 1931, he had broken his first national record (1,650 yd. free style). He was on the Olympic team in 1932. In 1933, he won the 500-yd. national indoor...
HARVARD BELMONT HILL Cutter, l.w. r.w., Butcher Roberts, c. c., Eaton Weeks, f.w. l.w., Wheeler Allen, l.d. r.d., Carstein Emerson, r.d. l.d., Dewey Watson, g. g., Rice HARVARD BELMONT HIGH Nesmith, l.w. r.w., Maloon Mochem, c. c., Nay Pope, r.w. l.w., Olive Russell, l.d. r.d., Grotjohan Eaton, r.d. l.d., Thurston Morey, g. g., Morris...
...Karl Kindermann. a German research student who was arrested on suspicion by the Gay-pay-oo some years ago, he describes Judge Ulrich thus: "I was particularly fascinated by the loathesomely hideous face of the President of the Court, Ulrich. ... I immediately associated him with the idea of a butcher who had just emerged steaming from an abattoir rather than that of a judge. In Russia he was commonly known as the 'Chief Executioner...
...Living?, tells the story of a troupe of serious actors who completely demoralize a seaside resort, accustomed to nothing but low comedy, with stark selections from Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev. After a fortnight, murder and melancholy break out all over the impressionable community. After seeing The Father, the local butcher throws a meat ax at his wife. After seeing An Enemy of the People, the local politico votes against the Government and precipitates a national election. The proprietor of the play pavilion saves the situation by firing the lugubrious Thespians and hiring a circus...