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...unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy at the London Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after glare and glory, retired to his suite at the Carlton Hotel. "I'm not even a $1-a-year man." he joked, trying to dampen reports of his semi-official importance. "I'm an 85? a year man. The President has reduced all Federal salaries...
...insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom of cabarets into the glare of Broadway and the cinema- would presently outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that he was soon to leave the Mayfair Yacht Club for Hollywood where his wit, properly censored, would provide an element thus far missing (see p. 30) in musical productions. Last week also, to the amazement...
...light of the bulb is monochromatic, i.e. it glows in but one color. Such light is useful in highway illumination because it reveals the details of objects at low levels of illumination, casts almost no shadow. The yellow glow of the sodium eliminates the offensive glare of white light, and, although the average motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places...
...test of a nation's sense of stability is the manner in which it treats crimes against the state. In Britain month ago a young Highland officer, Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart, was tried for espionage and high treason in the full glare of publicity. In Italy last week a secret military tribunal met behind locked doors to try the case of 25-year-old half-French, half-Italian Camilla Agliardi of Brescia and her lover, Warrant Officer Ugo Traviglia. They had been in jail for months, but only a handful of people in all Italy knew they had been...
Young Tommy Adair is a purebred English bulldog, son of a grand champion. Some day he may know the feel of smooth green carpet under his feet, the glare of arc lights, the eyeing of solemn experts who may award him ribbons and medals for his form, coat, stance, carriage. But already he has won a prize-in Ocean City, N. J. one day last week-simply for being so appallingly, truculently ugly...