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Chief equerry of Nazi Trojan horses in Latin America is General Wilhelm Faupel, square-headed, lantern-jawed, vociferous pressure man who persuaded Hitler to intervene in the Spanish War and was first Nazi Ambassador to Nationalist Spain. As President of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, he directs "cultural" relations, but also arranges contacts between aspiring Latin American generals and the Reichswehr. Speaking before the German Academy on the occasion of the Lima Pan-American Conference, he declared: "There is but one danger to Latin America. That is the United States...
Harvard man, no doubt. --Dartmouth Jack-o-Lantern...
...Chicago last season the Federal Theatre Project launched the big moneymaker of its brief career with a rousing, all-Negro Swing Mikado. In Chicago last week an all-Negro cast kicked over another Gilbert & Sullivan lantern, hoping to start another blaze of swing with a Tropical Pinafore. But the show went over on its rich, husky Negro singing rather than as a shagging Harlemquinade...
Massive, laconic, lantern-jawed Philip Winston Pillsbury, son of the late Director Charles S. of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., was known to Yalemates of the class of '24 as Teedyboom. At Yale he was a guard on the undefeated, untied '23 football team, All-American water-polo player, glee-club tenor. Later, smart, hardworking, deadpanned, he spent eight years in Pillsbury operations, became a master miller (able to make flour), became head of Pillsbury's Eastern grocery products division...
Instructive were these meetings of the real owners of the corporation with their management. Most of the stockholders sidled in, a little embarrassed, more than a little flattered when jovial Chairman Bell shook them by the hand. He tried to make them feel at home, showed them lantern slides of directors and executives who were not present, as well as of General Mills' mills, process, products. The company comptroller explained to them a simplified balance sheet ("Liabilities-What...