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Pilot Lost. Last week by all odds the most dashing American-born ornament of the R.A.F. got into trouble too close to the French shore to get out to the floats. He is rich, wavy-haired Wing Commander Whitney Willard Straight, 28, son of the late Major Willard D. Straight, unorthodox Morgan banker who founded and funded the New Republic. Wing Commander Straight is a grandson of the late traction tycoon William C. Whitney, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
...Cordell Hull last week promised the Government of Free China that there would be no more extraterritoriality in China, from Shanghai came the perfect epitaph for Shanghai's plutocracy. It was not the work of a taipan but of brilliant, crotchety British Lawyer Ranald McDonald, an ornament of Shanghai's bar and bars. At the Council's April meeting he had shrilled a speech that might have been drafted either by Mr. Pickwick or an early Shanghai missionary...
...mystification-loud-speakers, electric lights and wires and mechanisms." By last week Sponsor Crosby had had a grand piano hauled into the middle of the lake, where it was expected shortly to sprout water lilies, and Painter Dali had dunked a manikin near the shore and was trying to ornament her face with a fork...
...Havana, where his prancing Dodgers, looking less than ever like the flyblown crocks who were once Brooklyn's most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another boss to the Dodgers' Havana training ground, shook cordial hands with brash, black-haired Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
Died. John J. McK'enna, 87, oldtime South Side Chicago Republican politician, and, as a leading ornament of McGarry's famous saloon at Dearborn & Madison, the original "Hennessy"-the constant companion and audience for Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley"; in Chicago. Hennessy, for example, once observed that the country was going to the devil. "Hinnissy," replied the immortal Mr. Dooley, "F'r nearly 40 years I've seen this country goin' to th' divvle, an' if it's been goin' that long an' at that rate...