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Two little pieces of canvas slightly bigger than a man's shirtfront last week raised the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art high in the list of the world's repositories. Bursting with pride Director Herbert Eustis Winlock placed on exhibition the most important purchase the museum has ever...
Fresh paint stung the nostrils of delegates representing 66 of the 67 recognizable nations of the world.† Twenty clocks warned them to make haste. Without even waiting for King George to arrive, the coal-black delegate of Haiti, gigantic, barrel-chested Constantin Mayard, broached his plan for world prosperity...
"When our French papers print the news of my reception in New York!" crowed Premier Pierre Laval, pacing up and down his private car, taking quick puffs of his U. S. cigaret, "that will strengthen the friendship between our two countries-mais oui!"
"Mais quoi donc!" piped a voice. "Those are the things he's going to talk about in Berlin next week!"
Sunday afternoon German Ambassador Dr. Leopold von Hoesch telephoned wildly for an interview with Premier Laval. Premier Laval, having made his gesture, came back to town; so did sleepy-eyed Brer Briand. Hysterically Ambassador von Hoesch begged the Premier to reconsider. Did he really intend to bring about a revolution...