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Paris Gazette tells of many others besides the Trautweins: of Wiesener, a man of talent sold out to the Nazis, who salves what conscience he has in writing a brilliant, corrupt biography of Beaumarchais, and a secret journal; of Raoul his son, a bright, sensitive young crook, who tries leading a French-fascist Youth Movement, writes a scalding novel about his father; of Elli, a "helpless" and much-helped refugee who, flufily shouldering her betters out of the way, manages to make out very nicely...
Quite a few get printed by hook or by crook; the Harvard Press publishes the Annual Inglish Lectures, while Law School addresses appear in the Harvard Law Review. But even through these channels not enough lectures become available for popular consumption. All too many talks, discussions, forums, symposiums, and conferences flash briefly in the scholastic skies, and then disappear into the "unknown bourne...
Germany's No. 1 economic war problem is to persuade, by hook or crook, her neighbors to produce and deliver to her much-needed war materials. The Allies' big job is to persuade them not to. Last week's action on the trade front went mostly in favor of the Nazis...
...shouldered and blond, he looks and talks like a Missouri-born Sunday-school superintendent-which he is. People who don't like him-he is particularly unpopular with malefactors of wealth -say Elmer has a heart of ice. The simplest way for the Federal Government to catch a crook is to look into his income-tax returns. Elmer Irey has done just that, long and efficiently. The story goes that big gamblers nowadays are careful to station a bookkeeper next to the croupier, to keep the figures straight for Elmer...
This year Netherlands troops guarding the frontier with Germany were visited on St. Nicholas Day by the mitered Saint, bearing aloft his bishop's crook and preceded by capering Peter, who brought sugar cakes for the soldiers. Dutch cameramen snapped St. Nicholas peering through field glasses at cruising bombers outlined against the sky. Amid jollification, Saint and minion tasted the troops' pea soup, which gulping Peter pronounced "prachtig" ("swell...