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...prime is shown by Author Bedford with the brilliance of an artist who can paint both a huge panorama and an Audubon closeup. Julius von Felden, feckless son of an ancient baronial house of Baden, has come to Berlin to marry Melanie. daughter of the Jewish House of Merz-a plutocratic, rock-solid family that lives in a welter of steam heat, massive drapes, and meals so continuous and gigantic that every room contains a deftly hidden mousetrap...
Julius' and Melanie's main aim in life is not to get bored to death, so they wander feebly to Spain and France, their pockets full of Merz money, their lives empty of solid interests. When Melanie dies (of tubercular tedium), Julius leaves their daughter to be raised by the kindly Merzes, and marries an Englishwoman who is kind to his pets. The stalemated wanderings begin again: soon the cosmopolitan millpond is covered with the crisscrossing tracks of society's idle, discontented water beetles. The never-changing House of Merz is the center and paymaster...
...fellow travelers on a calmer sea," he told New York Times Editor Charles Merz during a chance encounter on "A" deck of the Queen Elizabeth. Arriving in the U.S. for the first time in 8? years, he had serene "greetings" for "the people of the world-famous city of New York, and with them all those in the United States who are in favor of lasting peace, international cooperation and consolidation of friendship." Molotov went sightseeing, had some pleasant comments to make about American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum...
...even a defense good enough to bottle both the passing and the inside running threats has fatal trouble stopping the effective outside running of such a back as Merz and his hard-hitting running mate. Bob Engel. In this offense, it is the outside, rather than the inside man who keeps the defense "honest," and the opposing coach twitching...
Tomorrow's game shapes up as a battle between the single wing, dull to watch even when it is working, and Cornell's flashy and very effective split. The Big Red has two players who can make the offense go: quarterback Rocco Calvo and halfback Stu Merz. Merz scored three times against Syracuse, while Calvo should be familiar to Soldiers Field goers from last year...