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...result, the condition of Newfoundland is "desperate." both politically and financially, according to the Royal 'Commission headed by that uncompromising, vinegar-tongued Scot, Sir William Warrender Mackenzie, ist Baron Amulree of Strathbraan. Last week prudent Lord Amulree had put the Atlantic between himself and Newfoundland when his Commission's report was published simultaneously in London and at St. John's. It declared 'that Newfoundland's chief industry-fisheries-is rotten to the core, that Newfoundland fishermen have become, under a "vicious credit system," practically the serfs of the merchants of St. John...
...great fist at the elements. Brahms's housekeeper, feeling that a man's death should be in keeping with his accomplishments, never spoke of the passing of Brahms until rangy, likeable Author Schauffler came along. For him she described the dying Brahms whose last words-"Ja, das ist schön"-concerned some wine that a friend had sent in. At the end. she said. Brahms could not speak at all because of his false teeth which kept slipping...
...pleasure to negotiate with a man like Mussolini. Er ist sehr, sehr angenehm...
Married. Marmaduke Furness, ist Viscount Furness, 49, British shipbuilding tycoon; and Enid Lindeman Cameron Cavendish, 39, modish Australian-born relict of the late Brigadier-General Frederick W. L. S. H. Cavendish; in London, few days after Lord Furness was divorced for misconduct by his second wife. Thelma Morgan Converse Furness, onetime Manhattan socialite beauty, onetime cinemactress...
...drinkers frequented the Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week...