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...Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France, a ministry in which so many Radical Socialists and Socialists had found places (along with a self-styled "Dissident Communist") that the Cabinet had to be officially divided into seven sections, an unprecedented...
...Eau Claire, Wis. was regularized the Episcopal status of Rev. Dr. John William Charles Toch Torok, 45, once a Hungarian Uniat Catholic priest. Imprisoned as a political suspect during Hungary's revolution, Dr. Torok escaped to the U. S. In 1921 he became a Hungarian Orthodox archdeacon in Fond du Lac, Wis., then an Episcopal priest. In 1924 he was consecrated Bishop in Vienna, by a Czechoslovak and a Serbian Orthodox Bishop. The Episcopalians of Wisconsin elected Dr. Torok suffragan Bishop...
...House of Bishops has neither confirmed nor voided Bishop Torok's peculiar apostolicity. But having made a thorough investigation with the House's permission, Eau Claire's Bishop Frank Wilson last week formally received Bishop Torok in his Cathedral during a simple communion service...
...dawn that day in a misty Berlin prison courtyard two cringing figures in suits of coarse sacking were led out, their hands chained behind their backs. Headsman August Gröber, 67 and spry for his age, advanced in impeccable full dress exuding Eau de Cologne. An artist, as are all great executioners, Gröber keeps his blade on ice until the last second, figures that blood has a tendency to congeal on an iced blade and hence will not spout on his boiled shirt. Swish-clump! Swish-clump!-two heads rolled in the sand. One of them, declared...
...outsell all others. "Parlez-moi d'Amour" topped 350,000. Other big sellers have been "Si Petite," "Attends," "Sans Toi," "J'ai laissé mon coeur," "Désir," "Garde moi dans tes bras," "Parle moi d'autre chose, " "Moi j'crache dans I'eau," "Ballade." The songs have wide variety but Lucienne Boyer's stage costume is always the same: deep blue velvet for which she chooses blue or amber lights. They suit her reddish brown hair, large brown eyes, full red lips. Her private wardrobe is more fantastic. She has so many...