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...eyed French President Albert Lebrun no sooner called M. Reynaud next day than the dapper new Premier promptly announced M. Daladier as his No. 2, retained him as Minister of National Defense-the key post which Daladier has held continuously for the past four years since it was given him in the first Popular Front Cabinet of Socialist Léon Blum...
...Jimmy." In 1932 at the final Herbert Hoover campaign rally in Madison Square Garden, sprightly, dapper, top-hatted Paul Reynaud was mistaken by the crowd for ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City, drew cries of: "What are you doing here, Jimmy...
...Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Ryti is one of the world's outstanding financiers and a confirmed Anglophile. His advice to Finnish businessmen has always been, "Protect yourselves. Undersell the Russians." He himself owns only British-made cars. For years Governor of the Bank of Finland, dapper, suave, immaculate Risto Ryti is well known on Wall Street, and the "Finns-are-honest" reputation of his country is due principally to his clever financial diplomacy...
...most fought-over composition of the 20th Century. One English critic described it as "a threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions," declared that it should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, a dentist celebrated for murdering his wife, cutting her body in pieces. But dapper, energetic Igor Stravinsky found himself the most influential composer of his generation. To younger composers the Sacre became music's Declaration of Independence. By 1920 nearly every musical youngling was throwing over his counterpoint for Stravinskian grunts & groans. To be caught in public with a pleasant tune was as embarrassing...
Marriage. At 47 William Powell has behind him two wives, Actress Eileen Wilson (divorced), Actress Carole Lombard (now Mrs. Gable). Dark, dapper, Thin Man Powell has also been publicized as grieving for the late and glamorous Jean Harlow. Last week William Powell's last act before eloping with Wife No. 3 was to call up Jean Harlow's mother, let her in on the secret. She wished him happiness...