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...producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...
...Chancellor's last speech of the campaign was shouted from atop a dynamo in Berlin's vast Siemens & Halske electric works. To hear him by radio all German factory workers stopped work for one hour. This time-out the workers had to make up later by working an hour overtime without extra pay. "German workmen!" shouted Orator Hitler. "International conflicts are fomented by a small group of international gypsies...
With her husband momentarily out of the picture, the long-legged, smiling dynamo that is Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was given his place in the nation's headlines. Two thousand eminent men and women gave her a banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Intended as a tribute to an able woman who had achieved a career in her own right, it had the effect of retorting to criticism of her behavior as First Lady-elect: too much spotlight, too little dignity...
...longhand, with pen & ink, in incredibly small script of which one sheet makes five or six printed pages. He plays jazz records while he writes; wrote Soldier's Pay to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." As I Lay Dying he wrote in a power house, to the dynamo's whirr. He says he never reads reviews of his books. The two books he most admires are Moby Dick and The Nigger of the Narcissus. His next book will be The Snopes Saga, for which he gives himself two years...
...Alfred Ewing, longtime (1916-29) principal of the University of Edinburgh, presiding. Sir Alfred at 77 is one of Britain's great engineers. He attended his first British Association meeting when he was 12, wearing kilts. His recollection covers many "surprises that are common-places today: the dynamo, electric motor, transformer, rectifier, storage battery, incandescent lamp,* phonograph, telephone, internal combustion engine, aircraft, steam turbine, . . . wireless telegraphy, thermionic valve as receiver, as amplifier, as generator of electric waves . . . for broadcasting...