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...Maxwell C. Bimberg, one of the more visionary, who was known as the Count de Pennies. Once he even tried to promote a railroad. Normally he dealt with varying success in racing cockroaches, Lithaqua Mineral Water (from a polluted spring on a Lithuanian's Connecticut farm), Eskimos, acquitted murderesses...
...living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...
...question of U.S. intervention in the war rode clamorously into Congress last week on the back of the Ship Seizure Bill. The bill gave the President authority to purchase or lease some 500,000 tons of Danish, Italian, French, German, Belgian, Rumanian, Estonian and Lithuanian vessels which lie idle in U.S. harbors and throw them into the Battle of the Atlantic. In the House the bill stirred up the whole argument over convoys, interventionists called the bill "an act of war," and for the third time the German Government sent a formal protest...
...much Sir Stafford who failed as the British Government in London, which understands Russian sensitivity less than its Ambassador. While Sir Stafford was earnestly assuring Moscow of Britain's friendship, the Government froze the Baltic States' bank balances in England, refused to surrender Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian ships in British ports, and last month requisitioned several of those ships. All this served to deepen Joseph Stalin's Oriental distrust of the Occidental Britons...
...those who volunteered to the Student Council to serve as interpreters of Italian, Portuguse, Polish, and Lithuanian during Registration Day are requested to report as early as possible today to Mrs. Sergeant Kennedy in Widener P. Phone KIRkland...