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Pilot Officer Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 23, adventurous nephew of Mrs. Winston Churchill, was listed by the R.C.A.F. as "missing after overseas air operations." Onetime Loyalist fighter in Spain, he eloped with the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, sister of Nazi-phile Unity, romped about the U.S.'s eastern seaboard with her from 1939 till last year when he went to Canada to enter training...
EDWARD S. MARCUS...
...Anecdotes told by Merchant Marcus at the Boston Distribution Conference (TIME, Oct. 20): A silversmith refused to make 40 tea sets because, while making one set was fun, making 40 sets would be hard work; 2) a lard seller in a village market refused to sell her whole pail of lard at once until she had had her fill of gossip...
...Hamburg, a teacher displayed to his class a pamphlet, The Jews in the U.S.A., with pictures of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia beside a gorilla, "Jewish Judge Marcus Pecora" (presumably meaning New York Justice Ferdinand Pecora-who is a gentile), the "Jewess" Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. At lesson's end, the teacher asked: "And what do you think of a country like that?" The class roared the Nazi Party battle cry: Judah verrecke! ("Death to the Jews...
...check his own theories, Mr. Marcus sent a questionnaire to U.S. importers of Latin American goods, asking how the U.S. Government could best help their business. Typical answer: "Less hot air and charity and more business. That can only be accomplished by lower duties." In this Edward Marcus heartily concurred. From his trip he had already found Latin American specialties that could replace many Paris imports: crocodile billfolds from the Argentine, fine gloves from Chile, laces from Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, etc. All too often the U.S. duty makes them prohibitive...