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...since Munich, however, has the British Empire been so obliging as when it arranged last week to hand over to Generalissimo Franco the Island of Minorca, one of the choicest of Mediterranean strategic plots. Lying athwart the French line of sea communications to North Africa and not far from the British Mediterranean "lifeline" to the East, Minorca was so strongly fortified (by British guns before the war) that the Loyalists had held on to the island since the war's start despite attacks by the Rebel Navy and Italian ships and planes. Nearby Majorca, bigger but not stronger...
...good things left in Paris by the pretty Exposition of 1937 is a new and handsome Trocadéro, on the Seine not far from a new and handsomer Museum of Modern Art. The proximity is fitting, for the Trocadero is to house the choicest examples in France of primitive and folk art, twin toys of modernism. Last week the "Museum of Man" in the west half of the Trocadéro was completed with the gala opening of an American Room...
...Choicest assignment any serious-minded newsman can get is a Lucius W. Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Founded in 1937 by a $1,000,000 bequest from the late Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, the Fellowships: 1) are open only to newspapermen with jobs; 2) pay each holder an amount approximating his regular salary, plus free tuition; 3) require no academic credits or examinations. Each applicant must satisfy Harvard that he has a definite study plan that will make him more useful to his community, his paper and himself when he goes back to work...
...Edgar, and Harry's three sons, Robert, H. Preston and Richard. Each has an equal voice in running the family shoe business, banks (BancOhio Corporation) newspapers and radio station (WBNS). Only unanimous decisions are acted upon. The Wolfes also own Ohio Agricultural Lands, Inc.-5,536 acres of choicest farmland in nearby counties, where they raise 12,000 hogs, 2,000 cattle, feed 10,000 sheep a year...
...Choicest of the new mail links was one between Brownsville, Tex., Houston and San Antonio. Border-town Brownsville is a U. S. terminus for Pan American Airways. Only other regular commercial airline out of Brownsville, connecting with such points as Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Kansas City and Chicago, has been veteran Operator Tom Braniff's bustling Braniff Airways. Capt. Eddie Ricken-backer's Eastern Airlines, whose network of routes over the eastern side of the continent now reaches as far southwest as Houston, has coveted some of neighbor Braniff's exclusive shuttle trade...