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...less authentic Reds on whom the White victors could get their hands, much as the defenders of Málaga set up after the civil war began a "people's court" to crack down on any Spaniard who seemed to be more or less Monarchist or even middleclass. That an orgy of Spanish vengeance did not at once erupt in Málaga last week, as it has erupted after almost every previous White victory in Spain's civil war, seemed to be due to the fact that decisive in taking Málaga fortnight ago were Italian...
Robert's tuition and board fee of $450 per year is a sum which only fairly rich Turks can afford. Hence the college draws its Turkish clientele largely from the prosperous middleclass, which wants its sons trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert...
...ample chair and whose funny little goatee waggled up and down as he talked. An oldtime Tammany politician from the East Side, Justice John Francis Carew had hitherto known Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors, Goulds only as so many shadowy newspaper names which, as flesh & blood, never came into his middleclass world. Now it was his duty to shape the life of this small Vanderbilt by deciding what her surroundings, friends and education should be for the next decade...
Then as now Dr. Gördeler was Leipzig's Mayor. Reviled by Nazi orators for years, he is still emphatically no Nazi. His name inspires confidence among middleclass Germans who. fearful of acute shortages in the Fatherland this winter, have lately been buying up foodstuffs and clothing in a frantic rush to hoard (TIME, Aug. 6). One day last week Herr Hitler abruptly raised non-Nazi Mayor Gördeler once more to the rank of Price Dictator, made him "solely responsible to the Realmleader...
PAPA PASQUIER?Georges Duhamel? Harper ($2). Kindly story of a middleclass French family by a prize-winning French author...