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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Grew was born in 1880 of a line of Boston bankers, was predestined to be one himself.* From his doting father he wangled a post-collegiate trip abroad, succumbed to "the vivid colors and majestic smells and big gun shooting" in the East He also caught a fever in the Malay States, lost his hearing in one ear and while he was ill in India met a helpful U. S. consul. Then & there he determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise...
...Italy and Germany might drag on through the summer without a major crisis, Germans and Italians were busy power-politicking on a half-dozen other fronts. Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...
...finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last week the throne went on view, along with some 40 other objects, in Manhattan's Arden Gallery...
...bridge fails, if a freight train gets shunted to the main line, or somebody leaves a bomb on the track, it will be 30 minutes before the train bearing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth across Canada this week (see p. 22) comes upon the wreckage of its pilot train and the mangled bodies of 56 correspondents and twelve photographers who are covering Their Majesties' trip. Besides brooding over such an unlikely fate, the representatives of the Canadian, U. S. and European press have the following causes for complaint: 1) a shortage of bathing facilities (one shower for seven...
...trombone solo of Higgenbothem . . . As to Harry James, heard at Adams House last Monday, almost everybody was musically disappointed. James, while having smoothed his style somewhat since last hearing, still plays very stiffly himself and his rhythm section sounds as if it were descended from the proud line of Pinocchio. On slow tunes, things were much better, the band displaying an indifferent Goodman style sweet. However, on the so-called "killer-diller" stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town" and most...