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Elevator boys at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, where he lives, reckon that as long as life lasts will be many a year for the Hon. Joseph Buffington. Though he no longer sleeps in summer in a pup tent on the Bellevue-Stratford's roof-as he did in his gay seventies-he still spurns an elevator to descend from his ninth-floor rooms to the street. Neighbors who used to complain about his bouncing a medicine ball against the wall, he now outwits by merely tossing it in the air. Under his bed he keeps a rowing machine, used...
Blonde, brassy the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, ardent admirer of Führer Adolf Hitler, and 23-year-old daughter of England's pro-German insurance tycoon Lord Redesdale, has a failing for flaunting her swastika pin where it causes trouble. Two months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation...
When a vote was taken on whether the Locker-Lampson bill should be admitted to first reading, the House exactly divided 144-10-144, creating the first tie in the Mother of Parliaments since 1910. Amid laughter the Speaker, Captain Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, broke the tie by casting his vote in favor of one of the most novel pieces of jurisprudence ever introduced...
Unequivocably last week the Rt. Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha stated in his introduction to his mother's story: "Some people will find it pretty, others may think it silly, but I know that it describes something that really happened, and that the characters in it did have the adventures described...
Having thus explained Japan, the Japanese and the Panay incident (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.) to the New Orleans press, the Hon. Kaju Nakamura was ready to bow his visitors out. But on the smoke-screen point they pressed him vigorously, recalling that sharp U. S. eyes had brought back reports of Japanese bombers wheeling down out of a clear, bright winter sky. Fenced the Hon. Nakamura, grinning toothily, "This is my story, and I'm sticking...