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...apocalyptic happenings. As the fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to a happy consummation with Leah, daughter of an orthodox rabbi. An old woman dies. Sonia, an infant violinist, insists upon her artistic kinship with Menuhin. Scientists squabble about their laboratory problems. The Passover is celebrated. Mr. Alberg, the Communist, predicts that blood will flow in the Gobi as the brotherhood of man dawns. The bankers meditate upon getting loans from London or even from Nazi Berlin. And David, the poet, marvels...
...Jobs. With Lady Rhondda, Mme Dupuy and Dr. Gilbreth, Mrs. Reid has a close personal and professional kinship. They are all women who are holding down men's jobs in a man's world, with no concessions asked or given because of their sex. Women in politics may get the headlines and Sunday feature stories but it is women in Big Business that make Mrs. Reid and her friends feel that the world is moving forward. The list of lose who hold top-notch positions makes an impressive roster: Josephine Roche, who owns and runs her late father...
Vastly displeased was the President with General Johnson's public claim to intellectual kinship with Supreme Court Justice Brandeis, before whom the National Recovery Act must sooner or later come for adjudication...
Died. Francois Coty (Joseph Marie Francois Spotuno), 60, perfumer ("Chypre," "L'Origan," "Rose de Jacqueminot" etc.), onetime newspaper publisher; of pneumonia; in Louveciennes, France. Like Napoleon, to whom he claimed distant kinship, he was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He built a small perfumer's shop, in which a brother-in-law gave him a job, into an internationally known organization. He published ten French newspapers, including Le Figaro, of which the most successful was L'Ami du Peuple which sold for two sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated...
Last month the Sun engaged Stephen Miles Bouton, oldtime European correspondent, to write pieces about Germany from which the Nazis had practically expelled him. In mid-June he wrote thus of Adolf Hitler, a personal acquaintance : "It has seemed to me at times that there is a kinship between him and Ignatius Loyola. One finds in both men the same complete faith in their mission, the same readiness and determination to exercise their power with utter ruthlessness and brutality in order to carry out that mission. No consideration of personal profit or glory ever entered Loyola's mind...