Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both studied at Chicago's Art Institute, are prime movers in Chicago's Artists' Union. Scholarly Mitch Siporin sings, plays the piano and mandolin. High-strung Eddie Millman relaxes best at the movies. Born on January 1, Millman annually gives a combination New Year's Eve-birthday party famed among Chicago artists, for the rest of the year stays close to the wagon...
...Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting as liaison officer between the British Ministry of Economic Warfare and the French Blockade Ministry. Pretty, serious, half-Polish Eve Curie (Madame Curie) prepared lectures on scientific subjects for the Information Ministry...
...awful night of August 31, the eve of war, when diplomats were making frantic 59th-minute appeals, a wealthy Londoner telephoned his brother in the South of France. Would the brother and his wife like to use the Londoner's private plane to get home? No, thanks, came the answer. For the brother's wife, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, dislikes airplanes even if they belong to the King of England...
EUROPE ON THE EVE-Frederick L. Schuman-Knopf ($3.50). A night-must-fall account of Europe's power politics in the tragic era, 1933-39, by a thoroughgoing scholar whose hatred for Naziism (with which, he claims, British Tories made a prearranged deal at Munich) leads to wishful-thinking...
...eve of the Labor Day deadline, A. A. A. A. convened in the balconied grand ballroom of Broadway's Hotel Astor, where Equity was born. Tallulah Bankhead in pink pajamas, Francis Lederer in an open shirt, Katharine Cornell in a white turban, 5,000 equally perturbed showfolk mobilized in the historic chamber to hear their marching orders. Thoroughly enjoying his big moment and appreciative audience, Actor Gillmore intoned: "You have come here prepared for a message of war. Instead I bring you a message of peace...