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...Thanks a million, Miss Moore, thanks a million," gushed Dapper Don. Off in the cloakroom posing for pictures, reticent Donald told photographers he would rather "tackle a 250-pound fullback...
Speaking to the press, Prado, a slight, grey-haired, dapper gentleman, called for American solidarity in these times. A former professor of mathematics at the University of San Morcos, founded in 1552, he said in English difficult to understand, "Let us dwell on the days when the men of San Morcos and the men of Harvard can devote themselves in peace and security to study and science...
...Occupied France, the Germans had a dapper new high executioner, Prince Josias Waldeck-Pyrmont, 45, whose early enthusiasm for Naziism might have been connected with the failure of his inherited sugar-beet and seltzer-water interests to yield him much money. The Prince became one of the Gestapo's chief pre-war agents in France, and his polished manners persuaded many uncouth Nazis not to scratch their heads with their forks. One of his first acts last week was a decree that hereafter French hostages would be carried on German troop trains, to discourage sabotage...
Coal pays 40-55? per ton water freight, and if they lose that, most independent shipping companies may show a loss. No ore rates for this season have yet been set, but tall, dapper Alexander Thomas Wood, president of the Lake Carriers Assn., last week started rate negotiations in Washington...
...long time the weather had been against him. When the dapper Chilean pianist arrived in the U.S. last fall, he was just another paid hand in the crowded concert field. A brilliant Carnegie Hall recital last November turned the trick. He was snapped up for concert dates; nine-tenths of them were sellouts. He went to Boston in January to appear as soloist with Serge Koussevitzky's resplendent orchestra. The Bostonians liked him so well that he was called back for a return engagement the same month-a thing the Boston Symphony never does. Fortnight ago he likewise reappeared...