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...hysteric type like Adolf Hitler. His air was almost reverent as he posed two hours later with the Reichspräsident for a farewell flash portrait. As Der Führer ducked out to fly by night back to Berlin, massive Old Paul, slightly pale with fatigue, bade him pious Godspeed: "God guide you, Herr Reichskanzler!" Even before the thundering tri-motor reached Tempelhof Field its radio had spoken and in high Nazi circles the President's steadying hand was felt. Old Paul had persuaded Chancellor Hitler that the way to ORDER lay in retaining Vice Chancellor von Papen...
...send-off they got a fine goose-stepping Reichswehr march past and more shouts of "Hoch Siam!" Then they motored to the most imposing medieval stronghold in East Prussia, famed Marienburg Castle, onetime seat of the "Teutonic Knights,' a motley crew who left off crusading for the pious work of converting pagan Prussians. Coming from the Near East, they brought with them Oriental ideas of architecture. Last week Their Majesties spent a whole afternoon minutely examining a vast moated palace as grotesquely strange as some of the temples of Siam. "Really, you know." said King Prajadhipok. "I am very...
...improved highways, how to dodge motor traffic, Nana Sir Ofori Atta, while visiting London, took practice crossing frantic Trafalgar Square (see cut). Sir Ofori, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Akyem Abuakwa, a Gold Coast district which once supplied myriads of U. S. slaves, is a rich, pious, English-speaking Presbyterian, especially educated in manual training and agriculture, whom King George knighted for marshalling Gold Coast natives against the Germans in Africa during...
...oldtime stage actor, film actor since 1910; after an operation; in Hollywood. British-born, he deserted the law for which he had been educated, played in stock companies, served as a nurse in the Spanish-American War, tried farming in the Midwest, drifted into the early cinema. A pious churchman in private life, he played wise, kind, whimsical oldsters (Outward Bound, Arrowsmith, The Case of Sergeant Grischa...
Engaged. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, third son of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Mary French, granddaughter of the late Frederick Billings, co-founder and onetime president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A graduate of Princeton where he received-third place in a poll as the "most pious" student, Laurance Rockefeller completed his first year at Harvard Law School last month...