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Diplomatic gossips seized on these changes to revive a prediction, first heard last Christmas, that Maxim Litvinoff would soon be withdrawn from Washington. Litvinoff has been in Moscow since May. Mme. Litvinoff is still...
...work of a tunesmith named John ("Honey") Stromberg, who wrote for the revues at the old Weber & Fields Music Hall when David Warfield, Fay Templeton, DeWolf Hopper and Willie Collier were among its stars. When Lillian made her debut there in 1899 in a travesty on The Girl from Maxim's, Honey Stromberg was her musical director. For four years he wrote his finest tunes for her. One day in 1902 Honey, an acute sufferer from chronic rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island. He asked Lillian to visit him, told her he wanted...
Married. Dorothy Thompson, 48, columnist; and Maxim Kopf, 51, refugee Czech artist; each for the third time; in Barnard, Vt. She divorced Sinclair Lewis last year, Austrian writer Josef Bard in 1927. After the bridal supper, the groom put on tights, did a one-man wrestling...
...Navy (which took it over from the Treasury Department in June 1941). He takes pride in the Coast Guard motto (Semper Paratus-always ready). But the front cover of his new booklet, Deeds of Valor from the Annals of the Coast Guard, displays a more familiar Coast Guard maxim: "You have to go out but you don't have to come back...
...systematically, but just as angrily, against the form and procedure that inevitably tend to strangle big organizations. Some high-rankers, like General "Hap" Arnold of the Air Forces, have often been in official hot water for cutting through red tape to get things done. General George Marshall has a maxim: "Red tape can be cut, but you've got to be deadly accurate...