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...response to an advertisement by Producer Wilcox for an expert on the décor of Brussels in 1915, one turned up, established his competence by proving that he was the shoemaker who forged credentials for Nurse Cavell and her friends. He not only did the décor, but re-enacted his old role. Retired U. S. Ambassador to Brussels Hugh Gibson, who was Secretary of the Legation in Brussels in 1915, allowed Producer Wilcox to show him vainly pleading for Edith Cavell with the German authorities on behalf of his ailing chief, Minister Brand Whitlock. In one instance...
...satin bed called "The Ardent Couch" an unclad Venus lies dreaming. Of her four uninhibited dreams, the first-an underwater vision called "Venus's Pre-natal Château Beneath the Water"-is the real crowd-catcher. A long glass tank is filled with such subaqueous décor as a fireplace, typewriters with funguslike rubber keys, rubber telephones, a man made of rubber ping-pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali over it. Into the tank...
Although Atlas paid him $35,000 per year, Alex Gumberg had no title and his duties were vague. He handled public relations, sat in on negotiations, represented Atlas officially or unofficially in some cor porations that big Atlas controls. Did a financial reporter need some hard-to-get information? Alex Gumberg could and would get it for him. Did the Russian Ambassador want to justify Purges to the Press? Alex Gumberg arranged an off-the-record dinner-in the name of the Nation...
...schedule is again pretty slack for the week with Princeton being slated to play Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in the only League game. Bix Six in League Player AB R H Ave. Polzer, Cor. 42 10 19 .452 Hill, P. 31 4 14 .452 Lupien, H. 37 9 16 .432 Bowen, Cor. 28 5 12 .429 Besse, Y. 27 2 11 .407 Trexler...
...Yale 7 23 2 9 .391 Trexler, Penn 10 32 6 12 .375 Murphy, Col. 11 44 10 16 .364 Hein, Dart. 8 22 6 8 .364 Brown, Cornell 11 42 8 15 .357 Johns, Harvard 10 37 12 13 .351 Stickel, Col. 11 40 8 14 .350 Finnernan, Cor...