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Died. Mary Lewis, 42, popular operatic soprano of the '20s; of gall bladder and kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Bohême. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague...
...famous Berlin newscaster, William L. Shirer, has had no successor in the art of wafting a lifted eyebrow on the air. But until Nazi armies got mired in Russia the job of broadcasting from Berlin, though it took gall and patience, could be honorably carried out. After CBS got tough last summer (TIME, July 28), it even seemed that Berlin would relax its clamp, at least on "color broadcasts." Instead, the personal war of nerves between radio correspondents and censors grew bitterer...
Around southern Paraguay it is said that Tupá Mbaé cures gall stones with apeterebi, dysentery with anambai-guazú, internal hemorrhage with guabiyu-miru, hemophilia with caa pari miri, boils with ananga piri, syphilis with the poisonous milk of curupi-cay, many other afflictions with other local flora. Thousands of his patients have, beyond doubt, got well. Many orthodox physicians think that Tupá Mbaé has had something to do with it. The forests of southern Paraguay contain a rich pharmacopaeia which would bear looking into...
These achievements did not keep him from being a gay, and well-known wit. Once three of us, undergraduates still,--of, whom Kittredge was one and I another-were accused of doing something required "a good deal of gall." Whereupon said "Kitty,"-"All Gaul is divided into three parts." I have often been credited with this coruscating retort...
...newsman in the Senate gallery sent these words down to Burt Wheeler. Cried Senator Wheeler: ". . . There is not a drop of blood flowing through my veins except English, and my people came here from England something like 300 years ago. . . . Think of the gall . . . the insolence . . . . A man such as Wedgwood should be run out of the United States...