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...needing good pilots at home, try to see that such "volunteers" as they have sent to Spain actually remain instructors, do as little fighting as possible. But while German volunteers are generally 18 to 20 years old, completing their own army training under actual battle conditions, Russian "volunteers" are fortyish, of the generation of Old Bolsheviks now being liquidated by Steel Man Stalin. Recently Russia has sent no more Soviet aviators, but gladly trains Spanish Leftist cadets on Russian soil...
...West 44th Street to be voted en. One was Lawyer Susan Brandeis (Mrs. Jacob H. Gilbert), whose pet dislike is to be referred to as the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis because she does not want to trade on her father's fame. Plump, fortyish. the mother of two boys and a girl, Mrs. Gilbert is a member of the New York State Board of Regents (educational overseers) and maintains a Manhattan law practice with her husband...
Shrewd New Orleans cotton men guessed that Messrs. Tullis & Craig had cleaned up nearer $200,000 than the $2,000,000 which was reported. Brisk, fortyish Partner Tullis is Commodore of the Southern Yacht Club, second in age in the U. S. only to the New York Yacht Club. Starting as an office boy, Mississippi-born Garner Tullis became a cotton firm clerk, then a trader, then one of the most astute traders on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was Rex, King of Carnival in the 1935 Mardi Gras, highest social honor in the city. Partner Robert E. Craig...
Tall, redhaired, fortyish Mrs. Davie, an international socialite, was a delegate to the Republican convention last June. She went home to organize "Landon Volunteers in Eastern Seaboard States," begin contributing a daily recruiting column to the Herald Tribune. Columnist Davie's original lead...
...wheel of this unique U. S. preparatory school was its Headmaster William McDonnell Pond. A blond, sturdy, fortyish Harvardman, until three years ago Headmaster Pond ran the Pond School in Cambridge, Mass, to tutor boys for Harvard. He and his wife Augusta May both liked to sail, used to take Pond pupils for weekend cruises aboard their small schooner, Gulmare, once asked a boatload of them if they would like to work aboard for a full week. They did, liked it so well that they asked their parents for enough money to sail down the Maine coast. When all returned...