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Nine o'clock came each night before his car swung through Washington's jammed traffic, crossed into Maryland to Oxon Hill, where the Secretary could enter the cool magnificence of his home. In the great Georgian house Welles dined briefly, buckled into his homework. Even in the thick, still heat of a Maryland summer night on the Potomac, Sumner Welles seemed cool. War or peace, he will remain...
...Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge, who recently called all out-of-State professors in Georgian universities "foreigners," the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Ala. sent a fancy, gold-sealed, round-trip "passport" certifying him as "a free citizen . . . permitted to enter the State of Alabama...
...leading. They are sponsored by the safe & sound International Student Service, to which she has transferred the affections once lavished on the deep pink American Youth Congress. << Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, riled by rumors of a race-equality move in State education, settled down to weeding out non-Georgian teachers, declared: "I never did think these foreign professors were smarter than our own Georgians." << King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 17, reached London safely, prepared to establish his Government-in-Exile there. << John L Lewis Jr. graduated from not-so-laborite Princeton. The labor leader brought his cigar along...
Married. Wealthy Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, 49; for the second time to her fifth husband, Georgian Prince Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine, 59; in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in Manhattan (they had a civil ceremony May 4 in Key West). A onetime actress, she quit the stage in 1924 to wed aging Publisher Edward R. Thomas, inherited a slice of his reputed $27,000,000 fortune when he died in 1926. Since then she has married and divorced Hoover-aide Lytton Gray Ament, Harvard Tackle Charles Hann Jr., Hotelman William M. Magraw...
...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...