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...meeting room of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate Office Building, their request for an interview with Senator Borah having been granted. For the first time, last week the grizzled, truculent, 66-year-old Idahoan permitted his remarks to the Press to be taken down stenographically. Robert Thompson Pell, private factotum to U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge and liaison man to Premier Laval, was there to serve as interpreter. This service was necessary only once...
...Robert T. Pell While M. Laval was reasonably sure that he could manage Josette, the Premier was quite sure that he could not manage the U. S. Press, a horrid BUGABOO. What to do? The answer last week was Little Bob Pell, first U. S. citizen ever appointed press contact man by a French Premier...
Little Bob-Mr. Robert T. Pell of the U. S. Embassy, Paris, son-in-law of a one-time U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Governor-is able. When Ambassador Edge has no time to hang a baby's nipple around his neck and make a night of it with important visitors-Little Bob does this duty (see cut). But his chief functions are as a rapid, discreet translator for the Ambassador (whose French is not rapid), and to keep Paris newshawks from picking on the Embassy. They are so tame just now that before Little Bob sailed...
...nowhere to go. Chance led her to a flashy, disreputable pub where her sister Tamar was mistress. Tamar had long ago gone to the bad. was now comfortably married, well-off, happy. Susan swallowed her pride, rested and revived her soul. Her ambition stirred again when rich, pious David Pell fell in love with her. She persuaded him to start a new sect, to found a religious community in the country with herself as head priestess. When her husband Clarabut's death was reported in the newspaper Susan's faith was once more made firm...
Robert T. Pell, young and no member of the U. S. Foreign Service, is said to be privately employed by Ambassador Walter E. Edge to whom he is personal private secretary. Throughout the week Personal Private Secretary Pell played important intermediary roles, chiefly the Great Interpreter. So able was his work that French statesmen called in no French interpreter...