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...leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by order of bespectacled Federal Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg the swashbuckling Prince was made Patron of the Fatherland Front's Mother's Help Section...
...Pennsylvania Colony and later as first U. S. Ambassador to France, he knew the political bigwigs of England and Europe, was highly esteemed by many an 18th Century intellectual. Franklin also found time to sit for an astonishing number of portraits, became in his own right a respectable art patron. Last week New York's Metropolitan Museum opened an exhibition, billed as "Benjamin Franklin and His Circle," which included, along with some 350 works of art, such memorabilia as Franklin's coat & breeches, and the great man's Pennsylvania Fire Place...
Since 1932, when twin-engined, low-wing monoplanes became dominant in U. S. air transport, United Air Lines has steadily patronized Boeing, while its rivals, American and TWAirlines, have done most of their buying from Douglas. Last week United also became a patron of Douglas by ordering ten of the huge, 24-passenger Douglas Sleeper Transports (DST), of which American already has 20 on the way. Price...
...refer you to the King's record in Rumania? Founder of the Boy Scout movement, Institute for Physical Education, Federation of Sports, Royal Cultural Foundation, new Rumanian Youth Movement (0. E. T. R.), printing shop for popular educational books, builder of churches, patron of art and music, silent and generous contributor to all charities, and above all a devoted father to an only...
...that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only in the imaginations of writers like...