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...Roosevelt has found places for four members of his large clan in his Administration: Son James, Secretary ($10,000); late First Cousin (mother's side) Warren Delano Robbins, Minister to Canada ($10,000); late Fifth Cousin, Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary to the Navy ($10,000); Mrs. Irene de Bruyn Robbins (Warren Delano Robbins' widow), assistant chief of the State Department's Foreign Service Buildings Office ($6,500). Two others, Uncle Frederick A. Delano (Vice-Chairman of National Resources Committee & Chairman of National Park & Planning Commission), and Cousin William A. Delano (member of National Park & Planning Commission...
...West Hampton, L. I., Arni Benedictson, Norwegian butler of Mr. & Mrs. William Ottman Jr. proved to be an Admirable Crichton straight out of Sir James Barrie's play. With meticulous calm he saved 23 people by shepherding them, including the Countess de Fontnouvelle (wife of the French consul-general) and her infant, into the Ottman house, signaling for help from the roof with a bed sheet. At the storm's height he reported to the house guests: "I am sure that our signal was observed, but the situation is most disturbing and perhaps I should venture outside...
...Spanish town of Castellon de la Plana, reports Professor Haldane, the clay consistency of the soil is such that a refuge could quickly be dug 40 feet beneath nearly every house, and these refuges were connected by tunnels. In the end, Castellon was captured by the Rightists (TIME, June 20), but meanwhile Leftist inhabitants made perhaps the best civilian score to date in avoiding death from...
Rollicking verses like the foregoing (Chapel Wooing) have appeared in Chicago newspaper columns, over the nom de plume "Friar Tuck," for 20 years. Lank, bushy-browed Friar Tuck is a copyreader, feature-writer and religion editor for the Sunday Herald and Examiner. He is also, under his real name of Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, an Episcopal minister, rector for eleven years of Chicago's St. Stephen's, nicknamed "The Little Church at the End of the Road." Last week, upon the publication of Friar Tuck's latest thin volume of verse, Bishop George Craig Stewart named...
Earliest exhibit is St. Thomas Acquinas's "Summa de Articulis Fidei", printed at Mainz about 1460 and attributed to Gutenberg, and along with it are several well-preserved Florentine and Venetian volumes...