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...CULPA-Louis-Ferdinand Celine- Little, Brown ($2). By the author of the sensational Journey to the End of the Night, a long essay on the Hungarian doc^ tor Semmelweis, martyr to modern antisepsis, and a brief essay on the Soviet Union, the latter breaking all existing records for anti-Communist invective...
...Louis J. Colombo, the Ford lawyer, protested that that was a matter for local officials, not the Labor Board. Mr. Colombo, senior partner of Detroit's Colombo, Colombo & Colombo, is often compared in voice, ability and courtroom manner to another famed lawyer of Italian extraction, Manhattan's Ferdinand Pecora. During the hearings Lawyer Colombo was irritated by the fact the witness frequently testified that some Ford service men looked like Italian gangsters. "Without saying anything derogatory of the Italian race, what term would you apply to some of the men you saw around Gate...
...Emperor Franz Joseph. His upper-class connections enabled him to study art at the Royal Academy of Zagreb and then at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, which awarded him its first prize and gold medal for composition in the year Franz Joseph's nephew Franz Ferdinand happened to get fatefully shot, not in Croatia, but in Serbia. Artist Vanka kept on painting, after the War became a professor of painting at Zagreb's Academy. In 1926 he met Margaret Stetten, the attractive daughter of Surgeon DeWitt Stetten of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, five years later...
...Senate the nominations of: Hugh S. Gibson (Ambassador to Brazil) to be Ambassador to Belgium, Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador to Cuba) to be Ambassador to Brazil, J. Butler Wright (Minister to Czechoslovakia) to be Ambassador to Cuba, William H. Hornibrook (onetime Minister to Iran) to be Minister to Costa Rica, Ferdinand L. Mayer (Counselor of Embassy in Berlin) to be Minister to Haiti, Leland Harrison (Minister to Rumania) to be Minister to Switzerland, Hugh R. Wilson (Minister to Switzerland) and George S. Messersmith (Minister to Austria) to be Assistant Secretaries of State...
...disposal smack into the dinner-table conversation of every taxpayer in the city. To Activated Sludge, Inc., which had sued the City of Milwaukee, its Sewerage Commission and several contractors for using its patented method of treating sewage and certain patented apparatus used for this purpose without license, Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger awarded profits and damages of $4,977,000, the equivalent of a $6 tax increase for each $1,000 of real and personal property value on' Milwaukee's assessment rolls. What made the award of national interest was that fortnight ago a favorable decision...