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...whose "beauty and Park Avenue elegance" flustered him terribly. At Eugen Boissevain's house he met Charlie Chaplin, who was chased one evening from room to room by a determined Harlem female admirer "coo-coo-cooing, just as if she were down home in the bushes." When a long-lost wife showed up, McKay eluded her by going to Russia, got in under a British Communist's endorsement as observer at the Fourth Congress of the Communist International...
...hilarious conclusion of the piece a certain long-lost Mr. Knubinsky turns up, and when he insists that he would rather be a messenger (it's safer) at the Mutual Trust company than a director, the hero delivers the key line: "All right, Mr. Kubinsky, anything--bank director, bank messenger, vice-president -- help yourself!" And that is just what this hero, Christopher Stringer, did: he walked into the bank, appropriated a desk, stirred up an imaginary deal about which only he knew anything, thereby making himself indispensable--and waited for things to pop. They did, the final explosion coming...
...long-lost memoirs,* Caulaincourt cleared up a major Napoleonic mystery with his account of Ragusa's treachery, clarified another with his account of Napoleon's attempted suicide a week later. Last year the first volume of this extraordinary document was offered U. S. readers under the title With Napoleon in Russia. Last week the second and concluding volume retraced the stages of the Emperor's decline to the time of his departure for Elba. Together the two books constitute an amazing picture of the smashing of a world power, the first volume more readable as a connected...
...There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes of game birds to be slaughtered. Carol graciously returned all these compliments by ordering machine guns for Rumania from the Czech Skoda Works, and with cheers ringing in his ears parted from President Benes with the cordiality of a long-lost brother...
...Magnin & Co. was Mary Ann Magnin's husband Isaac, who emigrated from The Netherlands to the U. S. just before the Civil War, fought as a Confederate cavalryman, turned pushcart peddler in New Orleans. With some savings, he went to London to look for his long-lost father, found his bride in the search. Isaac Magnin then set himself up in London as a wood carver and gilder in a picture-framing shop. Late in the 1870's, the Magnin's set out for San Francisco. There Mrs. Magnin picked a shop between the business and residential...