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...life any one of his little jokes would be reason enough for his being shot or locked up, stimulates rather than hinders the humor. Best shots: an unnamed player as a frightened waiter who is ordered by his employer to make a noise like a cat when addressing a patron who is supposed to be crazy; Haines selling bonds to a spinster...
Samuel Insull, patron, and Giorgio Polacco, conductor, of the Chicago Civic Opera, spent a half-hour explaining U. S. technical and artistic problems to Benito Mussolini...
Early one morning last week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract...
...country. Shaven-headed, thick-necked, he bears a distinct resemblance to the late great Gustav Stresemann whose friend and disciple he was. More important, he is one of the most intimate personal friends of President von Hindenburg. Born in Berlin in 1879, Bankpresident Luther proudly claims descent from the patron saint of Protestantism, grim-jawed Martin Luther...
Three months ago. young Alphonso Mires (alias Meyers, alias Mieri), 19-year-old son of a Manhattan greengrocer, set out to hold up a cigar store. With several companions he bound the clerk, shooed a patron into a telephone booth, rifled the till. All was going nicely when a negro entered the store. The bewildered intruder was ordered out of the way, then shot down. Alphonso Mires's confreres said...