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Died. Dr. Edmund Rumpler, 68, Austrian-born designer of Germany's first automobile (1897), builder of the famed Rumpler "Taube" (Dove) scouting planes used by the Central Powers in World War I, pioneer advocate of big-scale transoceanic air service ("Give me wings large enough and sufficient motive power and I'll take the earth for an airplane ride"); of heart disease; in Mecklenburg, Germany. After the advent of Nazi power, Designer Rumpler was non-Aryan enough to be benched, big enough to remain in Germany...
...Vatican may resolve its relationship with the dictators and democracies, no man can tell. Pope Pius last fortnight took refuge in metaphor. "Peace," said His Holiness to a thousand pilgrims, "is a white dove that, finding no place to land over a ground covered with corpses and submerged in a deluge of violence, seems to have returned to that ark of the new alliance, the heart of Jesus, to reappear only when it will finally be able to pluck from the tree of the gospel the green branch of brotherly chanty among men and peoples...
...Picture. At first glance All This and Heaven Too seemed to have almost everything that could possibly be crowded into it. It had impressive length (two hours, 20 minutes). It had shrewd, hard bitten Bette Davis to play the love-crossed governess; doe-eyed, dove-voiced Charles Boyer to play her great friend, the Duke de Praslin; hectic, handsome, breast-clutching Barbara O'Neil to play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic...
...evening, before a crowd of several hundred people attending the Glee Club concert on the steps of Widener, other sympathizers wearing similar apparel carried a caged dove through the Yard. Amid the plaudits of the crowd, it was later released...
Still standing is David Dove's Germantown house. In the belfry of Germantown School's main building still hangs the original school bell; above it still swings a weather vane with three bullet marks from Hessian muskets. But 177 years have softened the memory of old Schoolmaster Dove, and last week Germantown Academy proudly unveiled a newly acquired portrait of its scheming, irascible, sarcastic founder...