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...Marine Band played "Hail to the Chief"; President and Mrs. Coolidge descended the state stairway followed by Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, and the Cabinet members with their ladies. In the Blue Room doors were flung open and in marched the diplomats of 53 nations, wearing court uniforms, headed by Baron de Cartier, Belgian Ambassador, dean of the diplomatic corps. It was the first state reception of the season at the White House...
...portraiture has icy precision. Epigrams rattle like hail. Southern stuffiness?the scene is Queen-borough, Va.?is snowed under by pretty drifts of poetic irony. It is engaging reading?but the wrong person wrote the book, overwrote it, if these generation-comparisons are to be taken seriously. Miss Glasgow is too merciless to make her Judge bearable; too doctrinaire to know what she means by Annabel. The best character is Gamaliel's twin sister, Edmonia, who lost her virtue young, married four times and loves to tell about...
...ognized as Ambassador at Berlin and Paris, but although he was accredited in London as an Ambassador the British Government never recognized him as anything but a chargé d'affaires. Six thousand British Communists followed his coffin in London, 5,000 ,German Communists shouted "Hail Moscow!" as it passed through Berlin. Died. Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, 61, editor, Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal; at his desk in Memphis; of apoplexy. Thoroughly-trained journalist, bedrock Jacksonian Democrat, re ligious fundamentalist, his loss to the South parallels that of "Lafe" Young (TIME, Nov. 29) to Iowa...
...from Page's letters, the House memoirs, and Grey's memoirs, will in combination land themselves to as many interpretations as there are readers. These interpretations will be based on emotion, not reason, and this is why some can call Page a traitor to his country, while others hail him as the truest representative of the best in American democracy...
...winners displayed a fast and versatile attack, and experienced little difficulty in rolling up the score. The Standish defense was bewildered by the hail of forward passes, and many times left the receiver entirely free...