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Oscar Odd McIntyre of Gallipolis, Ohio is probably the most widely read columnist in the U.S. His "New York Day By Day," in which for 23 years he has maintained the attitude of an overgrown and somewhat elfin country boy viewing the Big City's glitter with vague mistrust, is gospel to countless millions of credulous readers in nearly every town big enough to have a daily newspaper. But of all the 400-odd places receiving "New York Day By Day," Manhattan shows least interest. Likewise, the vast army of O. O. McIntyre's admirers includes very few members...
...contorted tree and looked about him. The great, barren hills staggered into each other like drunken giants. Then he looked back and below and his heart quickened again. All the valley spread and undulated in miniature graciousness, remote, like a misty pool of gold in the late sun. An elfin land it seemed, sending up a teasing shower of elfin bells from the moving sheep. Irresistibly drawn, the Vagabond began his descent...
...filled German hearts to bursting last week when beloved Realmleader Hitler took the most popular plunge of his career. Only crabbiest correspondents sneered when elfin little Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, sparkling-eyed and jumping for joy on his club foot, announced that Germans were rejoicing before he released the news at which they would rejoice. At hastily summoned newshawks. Dr. Goebbels thrust this historic handout: "Enthusiasm prevails among the German people. Simultaneously with this expression of joy and supreme happiness over the defense of German security through the rearmament now resolved upon, the German people...
...Bangkok thick-lipped, domineering Premier Phya Bahol promptly sent emissaries to offer the Throne to childless Prajadhipok's 11-year-old nephew, elf-faced Prince Ananda Mahidol, whose late father, a loyal Harvardman, resided for years in Cambridge's Brattle Inn. Last week Elfin Prince Ananda was at school in Lausanne, Switzerland when the Siamese Minister to Paris arrived to tell his mother that her son may be King of Siam...
Pianists. Sergei Rachmaninoff had given 30 U. S. concerts when he sailed last week for Europe. Josef Hofmann arrived on the Rex, attended briefly to his duties at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, then took to the road. José Iturbi, the elfin little Spaniard who sometimes conducts, was working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski...