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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 41 crates reportedly containing gold bars and Ethiopia's well-worn old green Imperial treasure chest among his luggage, His Majesty Haile Selassie reached London last week bravely smiling and heavily perfumed. En route from Palestine he had been transferred from a British warship to a British liner, and the British Government insisted that his status was "strictly incognito...
...father, having edited the Providence, R. I. Journal during the Civil War and taught a spell at Brown, briefly took over the sickly State University at Burlington. James Rowland Angell does not like to have it forgotten that he is descended from nine generations of Rhode Islanders and he en joys recalling that since the old Angell farm lies at the bottom of Providence's reservoir, the citizens to this day drink water filtered through his ancestors' bones. But the Harvard Alumni Review made no mistake in its simile. Like a breeze, Angell had in his 53 years...
...Author Somerset Maugham. Herein Ashenden (John Gielgud) is seen at the start of his career, stationed in Switzerland, where Author Maugham himself functioned as a Wartime spy. Detailed, with the assistance of a gruesome character known as the "Hairless Mexican" (Peter Lorre), to track down a German agent en route to Arabia, Ashenden proceeds with more pluck than perspicacity. Nonetheless, having inadvertently permitted the Hairless Mexican to push a harmless tourist (Percy Marmont) over a cliff, Ashenden and a beautiful blonde English spy (Madeleine Carroll) finally discharge their mission with the help of bombing planes...
Waiting in Philadelphia last week for famed Bronchoscopist Chevalier Jackson to haul a hooked dental bridge out of his gullet was a Detroit medical student. En route from Australia last week was a child from whose lung Dr. Jackson is expected to remove a foreign body. Shipped home fortnight ago from Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, where Dr. Jackson operates, was the body of a Knoxville, Tenn. girl who had inhaled the brass cap of a lipstick. Knoxville bronchoscopists had failed to remove the obstruction from her left lung. A fatal abscess had developed before Dr. Jackson...
...compartment every night, dictate furiously to his four secretaries. He always stopped at third-rate hotels but insisted on having six rooms, so that one visitor might never know who his other visitors were. German newshawks, if they wanted an interview with Dr. Berliner, had to catch him en route to the railroad station. Somewhere in his numerous locked brief cases Austria's insurance Napoleon kept a toothbrush and a stiff collar. He had no other baggage...