Word: jeane
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Dynasty by Adoption. The history of Sweden in the 81 years since King Gustaf's birth is just about the best possible argument for constitutional monarchy. The Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were...
...France almost all writers were patriots, and those who were not did little talking. Notable exception was Jean Giono (The Song of the World), pacifist and peasant legendmaker of the Basses-Alps, who in September 1938 organized the peasants of his province to revolt against mobilization. This time Giono wrote the gendarmerie of his village that he would not obey the mobilization order. He was clapped into jail (TIME...
...five years ago Joe Pasternak electrified the movie-going world with a little girl who had a beautiful voice and a contagious smile. Her name was Deanna Durbin. Today Joe Pasternak has pulled the same trick with pleasant, but not electrifying, results. The name of his find is Gloria Jean and her first picture, "The Underpup." With a none-too realistic rich girls' camp as a back ground, she swings through an enjoyable pastel plot with occasional time-outs to show off a very nice voice. C. Aubrey Smith crashes through again as one of the better parts...
Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...
Divorced. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Earl of Lincoln, 32, son & heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, onetime owner of the traditionally deadly blue Hope diamond (now the property of Washington's Evalyn Walsh McLean); and Jean Banks Gimbernat Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 31, onetime Manhattan socialite; in London...