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Nazi Consul General at San Francisco, received a fake telegram demanding his resignation from swank Olympic Club. The fast-talking Consul General-trusted confidant of Adolf Hitler and good friend of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, who was publicly called a "dirty spy" in London's Ritz (TIME, Sept. 11)-resigned...
One of the saddest men in the court room was little Felipe Abreu ("Goodfellow Philip") Buencamino, 53, whip of the Philippine Assembly, longtime confidant of President Quezon. Because he offered to cooperate in the bond redemption plan for an alleged $50,000, he was denounced by the Federal prosecutor as...
Only once did the name Alex Gumberg ever appear in a newspaper headline. That was last week when at 51 he died suddenly in Norwalk, Conn., stricken with coronary thrombosis while entertaining at his country home. Yet in one short life he had been a trusted adviser to Nikolai Lenin...
Mr. Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer and Inner Cabinet confidant, Sir John Simon, is cold and devious, a lawyer whose poker face and ambiguous, clausy rhetoric are well adapted to muddling through. Devious and poker-faced as ever last week, Sir John took steps definite enough to jolt...
The program will be: Chorale, "Freu'dich sehr, O meine Seele," by Bach; Concerto Grosso in B minor, Handel; Canon, "Hallelujah, Amen," Norris; Madrigal, "On the Plains, fairy trains," Weelkes; "Das Voeglein," Dvorak; Velse Nobles, Schubert; Martinslied, Hindemith; Chorus from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn; Overture to "Le Rival...