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Chicago sweated as the woolly, wet heat topped 99°. But it was not too hot for lurid drama. For the first time since the Leopold-Loeb thrill murder of 1924, the home of sudden gunfire and anonymous funeral wreaths last week had a crime story juicy enough to appease its appetite. It seemed like old times...
...thankless job of steering the nation along the thorny path of recovery might fall upon the Catholic party, which favored the return of King Leopold III from exile. In pious, conservative Flanders, mottoes like "Wij eischen onzen Koning terug" (We want our King back) suddenly appeared on house walls. But in leftish, French-speaking Wallonia, an all-Catholic government might cause strikes and riots...
Elsewhere on the Square, the passing of OPA controls occasioned less of a flurry. Shoeshine boys were holding the line, and liquor stores generally agreed that profits were satisfactory at present price levels. Clothiers opened Monday morning in a public spirited mood. Leopold Morse promised no immediate changes, and J. August planned, to hold all merchandise stock at the OPA levels. Tedford-Harvard remained adamant...
Chancellor under Renner is Leopold Figl, of the Catholic Volkspartei (People's Party). The party is the direct descendant of Dollfuss' and Schuschnigg's Christian Socialists, though it now favors (still a little halfheartedly) nationalization of key industries and has been purged (at least officially) of fascists. Despite public political friendship, Figl does not get on well with Renner. Unlike Socialist Renner, who comes from a bourgeois family but has lived it down, Figl comes from peasant stock and tries to live up to it. He has a peasant's stubborn strength and stubborn limitations, along...
Married. Sonya Stokowski, 24,* actress daughter of Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his first wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski; and Flight Lieut. Willem Thorbecke, 24, Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot who flew with the R.A.F., son of The Netherlands prewar minister to China; both for the first time; in Manhattan...