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...Dapper little Swiss President Marcel Pilet-Golaz, who dresses like Anthony Eden, gave audience on Sept. 10 to leaders of the Swiss Nationalist (Nazi) Movement. His office said afterward that the Nationalists assured the President they were not acting and would not act in concert with any foreign power-i.e., Nazi Germany. Nonetheless, democratic Swiss resentment boiled last week and parties representing 126 out of the 187 seats in the Swiss National Council issued a statement publicly regretting that the President had received the Nationalists. Many Swiss smelled "appeasement" by President Pilet-Golaz, the more so because Adolf Hitler...
...last ditch of defense, the one on which London relied most heavily by night, was anti-aircraft fire. The organizer of London's anti-aircraft defenses is Lieut. General Sir Frederick Alfred ("Tim") Pile, a short, dapper, witty, sporty Irishman who can speak Persian and Hindustani. He won the D. S. O. in 1918 for outstanding artillery work near Arras, a decade later helped devise Britain's first practical light tank. His personnel is an entirely civilian group from territorial regiments...
Fortnight ago Wendell Willkie had his portrait painted. He sat in Rushville, Ind. and Manhattan, never more than 40 minutes at a time, for a, total of two hours and a half. Last week he pronounced the job good: "an almost exact likeness." The man who painted him, lean, dapper, longish-haired John Doctoroff, exclaimed: "Oh, God, there was nothing so hard in my life. It was like painting a moving picture...
...brick Blackstone Hotel; down the red-carpeted marble corridors to a spacious sitting room of candy-striped chairs, a crystal chandelier, a plumed, bustled lady of the English Regency, framed in the pink-&-gilt fireplace, delicately offering all comers a symbolic prize-a prickly rose. In this room operated dapper young Vic Sholis, Hopkins' secretary, and soft-spoken David K. Niles, the Janizariat's undercover man, who engineered the biggest financial coup of the 1936 campaign by wangling $500,000 out of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
...program called Wings For America. Using the Orson Welles-Martian Invasion technique, the Tribune-MBS aerial brain storm concerns itself with the patriotic struggles of a mythical Tribune newshen named Lorna Carroll to overthrow a bunch of Putschers calling themselves the "Advance Front." With solemn Elissa Landi playing Lorna, dapper Phillips Holmes as an imaginary MBS commentator, the first installment of Wings For America, which is due to run serially for the next nine weeks, indicated that before the show's run had ended, it would be firmly established as the dizziest radio drama ever confected...