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...personal message but attended none of the seven balls given in Washington. Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox, for Mr. Doherty excused himself from the job on ground of ill health. To provide publicity for the balls and themselves, a battalion of major and minor Hollywood names descended on Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely...
Whether Harvard will successfully defend their second place league position of last season will probably be decided during the trip to Canada. For the Crimson still appear to be the class of the American contenders, despite their small margin of victory against Princeton. Unpredictable Yale, however, recently provided a paradox by losing to weak Montreal and holding powerful McGill the very next night to Red Birds smallest margin of victory...
...bossing a regime which in Socialist eyes is featured today by a ''reign of terror," secret police activity as in Russia and a betrayal of the "revolu-tion"* as originally conceived by such Spanish Leftists as Largo Caballero, provided Europe last week with its No. 1 political paradox...
...Another paradox is that the Communist allies of Boss Prieto have been tentatively drawing nearer to the Catholic element in Leftist Spain by permitting young Catholics to join the Leftist youth organizations -hitherto 100% Marxist. This tendency the Spanish Lenin has especially denounced. Last week, appeared a third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish...
Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love...