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...renewed dates with P. M. girls went Mark Levy, Charlie Gould, John Lauder and Bill Schmelty this week. They report that the girls are still talking in hushed tones about smoothie Ray Wible, keeper of the Royal Entrance Parker House. He's a "solid sender" in their estimation...
Died. Major General Sir George John Younghusband, 85, bemonocled veteran of five wars (excluding World War II), since 1917 keeper of the Crown Jewels of England; in Neuadd Crickhowell, Wales. Sir George once worriedly reported that two thieves had looted his apartment in the Tower of London, absconded with his radio...
...usual batch of patriotic letters for Tovarishcha Stalina, the usual donations ranging from 50,000 to 1,000,000 rubles for Red Army weapons.*The one Comrade Stalin liked the best and the one Pravda featured came from gnarled, patriarchal Ferapont Golovaty, father of four, grandfather of ten, keeper of the bees and assistant chief of a collective farm in the Saratov region...
...compromise. They had been confused by Anglo-U.S. dithering, chivvied by Russian pressure, adamant in demanding the abdication of little King Vittorio Emanuele III. Into this deadlock stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...
...papers, circ. 5,000,000) as having undergone "violent reversal of attitude at periods approximating their middle years and success." Of Sullivan, Fisher says: "The fact that none of the tragedies [he has predicted] ever came to pass . . . has in no way affected [his] status as prophet, analyst," keeper of the Old Guard faith. Of Kent: "A prosperous citizen [vice president of Baltimore's Sunpapers] . . . when [he] assails the New Deal, the protest comes from the heart...