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Stupid Democracies. No small feather in the Führer's bonnet this year was the attendance of virtually the entire Berlin diplomatic corps for a 48-hour flying visit to the Party Congress-hitherto boycotted by democratic diplomats. Noticeable absentees last week, however, were the Papal Nuncio, the Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and Andr...
Young Russian Character-Actor Nikolai Cherkassov tried 250 different makeups, had each screen-tested, before he was satisfied his 32 years added up to 75. Then he convinced skeptical and hitherto unknown Co-Directors Alexander Zarkhi, 32, and Joseph Heifetz, 28, that he was the only man for the role. A follower of the Stanislavsky method of living a part, he so thoroughly transformed himself into a tottering ancient that his friends were alarmed. Most successful Soviet film since Chapayev, Baltic Deputy has been seen by 80 million Russians since its release last spring...
...cardinal principle in criminal law is that either side of an action can challenge, without offering a reason, a certain number of jurors. All 48 U. S. States accept this principle. But some U. S. judges are as objectionable as some U. S. jurors, and hitherto the only way a lawyer could avoid trying his cause before a judge he disliked or distrusted was to prove prejudice on the part of the judge or to switch his case to some other court on jurisdictional grounds...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago...
...fill the Museum of Modern Art, France has not only ransacked her best collections but caused even the Bank of France to disgorge a few masterpieces from its ornate salons, sacred hitherto to such connoisseurs as Dr. Schacht. Cabled hard-boiled Manhattan Sunman Henry McBride, last week after looking out from the new Trocadero Palace: "Surely the view one gets from this terrace is one of the most glittering and stirring prospects now to be obtained anywhere in the world...