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...novices, bridge players will vy for the privilege of representing Harvard in the Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament at New York with all expenses paid. The test will be held in the Lowell House Dining Room next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The winning pair will enter competition at the Ritz Carlton Hotel for the silver Challenge Cup and individual miniature replicas...
Twenty-two hours before the inauguration of President Roosevelt for the Third Term, Wendell Willkie arrived in Washington. The lobby of The Carlton was jammed with obliging celebrities and avid autograph hunters, but the defeated candidate had no time for either. In the seventh-floor suite of Secretary of State Cordell Hull he settled down for a two-hour conference with the old border statesman. Wendell Willkie was going to London to see the war for himself. President Roosevelt had asked Cordell Hull to make available to him information and assistance of the Department of State...
...product of British tradition. He went to Eton and in 1914 became A. D. C. to his father in France. Back home from war, he joined Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, but later abandoned him. He yachted in summer and sat with equally well-bred companions in the posh Carlton Club in winter. In the best Tory tradition he represented the cult of the old school tie. When World War II began he was made commander of Officer Cadet Training Unit No. 168. Last week he broke into print in the London Times letter columns...
While slighter temblors shook the nation, Rumania's chief concern last week was with the effects of last fortnight's violent earthquake shocks. In Bucharest 98 bodies had been taken from the stony ruins of the elegant Carlton apartments. The national toll rose to 357 dead, thousands injured...
...building in the entire city was unscarred. "I had noticed a young couple kissing in an automobile. . . . They are somewhere under there now," stuttered a chalk-faced newsboy, pointing in the street to a mountainous pile of masonry that minutes before had been Bucharest's elite, 13-story Carlton apartment house. More than 300 were believed buried in its ruins. A few gained the air-raid cellar and called frantically for aid over a still live telephone wire. Then the oil tanks of the central-heating plant exploded, bathing the rubble in flames. Nearly 100 prisoners saw the walls...