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...Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky among the diplomatic outcasts of Washington. Oumansky, though diplomatically shunned for two years, was nevertheless personally popular, bore up well. Henry-Haye, natu rally affable, is desolately lonely-next to Germany's handsome Chargé d'Affaires, Dr. Hans Thomsen, is probably the loneliest man in boom-packed Washington...
...ivory-billed woodpecker, rarest of U. S. birds, was considered extinct about 1926. But in the latest issue of Audubon Magazine Ornithologist James Taylor Tanner of Cornell estimated that some four & twenty of these birds still live in the loneliest swamps of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina. Biggest U. S. woodpecker, the ivory-bill once ranged the southern primeval forest, eating larvae from recently dead trees. As the forest dwindled, so did the ivorybill, and Tanner gives it only a slim chance of surviving...
...intimates could no longer keep from him a rumor that Mrs. Coolidge would divorce him as soon as he left the White House.) At some moments the job seems lonelier than usual. The man sitting serenely in the touring car had become, out of his own choosing, the loneliest of all U. S. Presidents...
...loneliest men in Louisiana last week was New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri. Gone were most of his henchmen, gone were most of his pals. Some 200 had been indicted by U. S. and Parish (County) Grand Juries, charged with sundry tricks of fraud, graft, income-tax evasion. Three had killed themselves. In U. S. courts five had pleaded guilty, five more had been tried and convicted. Among the head men of the Maestri machine (which once was Huey Long's), only Maestri himself and Huey's loud little brother, Governor Earl Long, were left untouched...
...loneliest, darkest spots of Phoenix Park, Dublin, near the place where a granite monument to the Duke of Wellington stands and about a mile from the Island Bridge barracks, the Army of Eire maintains one of its major arsenals. One night last fortnight a man dressed in an Eire Army uniform approached the arsenal gates, remarked that the parcel he carried was a Christmas gift to the commanding officer...