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Baron Bumped Off. Dead, apparently shot in the back by a Red Militia execution squad, was Baron Jacques de Borchgrave, First Secretary of the Belgian Legation in Madrid. Incensed at Brussels, the Government of His Majesty King Leopold III demanded $35,000 indemnity from Spanish Premier Largo Caballero, plus a Spanish apology and full military honors for the Baron. His corpse was dug up and the Baron de Borchgrave was found to have been killed by a pistol shot just behind the ear in the classic style of "Spanish bumping off parties" (TIME, Jan. 11) and Chinese executions...
...Philadelphia Orchestra has always been famously friendly with Pianist-Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1920 it was the first U. S. organization to play his choral symphony The Bells. Blond-maned Leopold Stokowski used to hire Rachmaninoff often as guest soloist, liked to slap his back in public. In Philadelphia this season Stokowski led the orchestra through the world premiere of Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony, later took it to New York (TIME, Nov. 23, 1936). When, after 17 years absence. The Bells was again heard last week in Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under new Conductor Eugene Ormandy, contrived its return...
...Manhattan in the apartment of Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun a meeting which had nothing to do with U. S. legalists. At Mr. Broun's were gathered a group of liberal-thinking newshawks, and, with them, Mr. Broun's friend, bright-eyed little Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst. Hatched at this and subsequent meetings was what has since grown to be the American Newspaper Guild. Lawyer Ernst had a lot of ideas about the newshawks' union, became its lawyer, drafted its constitution...
That deeply grieving widower, young King Leopold III, had his private secretary call correspondents to the Royal Palace last week, made a denial as rare as Queen Mary's one & only (TIME, Dec. 21). "His Majesty is greatly disturbed over reports carried in an English Sunday newspaper that His Majesty is engaged to marry a niece of the King of Denmark," said the private secretary. "I am instructed to make formal denial of this rumor and all similar rumors. That is all, gentlemen. I need not remind you that various news sources in the past month have set afloat...
...March of Time makes stop-offs this time at the P.W.A.'s venture into the show business, the prospects of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the activities of King Leopold of Belgium against Fascist Leo Degrelle and toward strongly armed neutrality...