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Courtesy Repaid Long a familiar figure at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre was tattered old Mrs. Edna Morss Allin Elliot. Whenever a new picture was being shown she went to the first showing. Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and feather boas. Ten years ago, when Assistant Manager William J. Reilly first noticed her regular attendance, he arranged to have her admitted early to watch the rehearsals of the stage show...
Discreetly continuing never to express opinions in the Soviet Union, U. S. Ambassador Joseph Davies took his accustomed front-row seat as the latest Big Bolshevik trial opened in Moscow last week. He had already learned from the official Soviet newspaper Pravda ("Truth") that Death was going to be meted out to all 21 prisoners (TIME, March 7), no matter what happened in the courtroom. Pravda is seldom wrong in such a case. Thus the U. S. Ambassador could look across at the witness box to the right of the judges' table and figure that certain death hung over...
...hearing testimony. "I can hit a fourbit piece nine times out of ten," she remarked, where upon the unfortunate examiner adjourned the hearing, appealed to the court for protection. When the Sharon heirs brought suit in Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front-row seats. On the bench, doing the regular circuit duty then required of U. S. Supreme Court Justices, sat Terry's one-time colleague on the State Supreme Court bench and his longtime political foe, Justice Field. As he began to read a decision against Mrs. Terry, she clutched...
This was no mean triumph for the years of patient diplomacy practiced by China's greatest diplomat, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. Since Japan and China are again at dangerous loggerheads, the winning of a Council seat at Geneva now gives China a front-row vantage post from which to shriek to the World for help should Japan again strike...
...Cabinet. Next came President Roosevelt on the arm of his military aide and last of all Mrs. Byrns, the late Speaker's two brothers and his only son, Joe Jr., 32. Behind a long black veil, plump Mrs. Byrns wept softly. Across the aisle from her in his front-row seat, President Roosevelt kept his head bowed, his eyes fixed on the coffin. Not even at the funeral of Senator Tom Walsh in 1933, thought observers, had he looked...