Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington an "authoritative White House source" revealed that the successor to Ambassador William E. Dodd in Berlin, who handed in his resignation last summer, would be Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson. Next day even bigger news broke. The New York Times, whose White House pipe line is the envy and despair of other papers, revealed that Robert Worth Bingham, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (now recuperating from malaria at Johns Hopkins), would be replaced by Irish Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
Ambassador Dodd's successor is a trim, close-mouthed diplomat whose career has been as single-tracked as Joe Kennedy's has been heterogeneous. After a misguided effort to oblige his parents by going into business when he left Yale in 1906, Hugh Wilson married and started in at the bottom of the foreign service ladder as private secretary to the U. S. Minister to Portugal in 1911. Rungs thereafter included service in legations or embassies at Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and Berne. In 1927 he got his first top-flight appointment as Minister to Switzerland...
There was no mistaking it. The triangle is immediately visible--the third corner gallantly supported by Beverly Roberts--and to it are added a prize fight, a regiment of California State Highway Police, a rain storm complete with sound effects, Hugh Herbert, and a strong dose of Hollywood's kind-hearts-are-more-than-coronets philosophy. All this tends to make the picture somewhat confusing until the fuller significance of the thing is grasped; it is an answer, almost a rebuke, to James Hilton; it shows in no uncertain terms how dreadfully dull Shangri-la would be in actual operation...
...summer of 1936 young English Poet Wystan Hugh Auden got a publisher's advance for a trip to Iceland, "to write a book." Forthwith he asked young Irish Poet Louis MacNeice to come along. For several months the two poets toured the fishy, subArctic, volcanic island, sat around in its corrugated-iron farmhouses and dumpish hotels. When their time was up they had written a number of letters in prose and verse, collected a farrago of literate jottings about Iceland's history, culture, landscape, people. These, illustrated by photographs and stitched loosely together into a book, give...
...many writers owe as much to a house as does Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West, wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant no more to her than Scotland Yard men did to Edgar Wallace. To this background, tall, brunette Author Sackville-West, now 45, owes the subject matter for The Edwardians, a novel which (in the U. S. at least) made her literary reputation, also her semi-legendary fame as heroine of Virginia...