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Pale, lantern-jawed Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, plump German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, and millions of swarming grasshoppers descended upon Rome last week. In the Campagna frightened peasants set fire to their fields as black clouds of the insects dropped from the sky, ate wheatfields to the dust and vineyards bare to the stalks, then hopped and whirred away. Gardens were ruined in the city. Streets, roofs and windows were gummy with grasshopper bodies and their brown "tobacco juice...
...throne in picturesque Kabul and has since successfully remained there (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929 et seq.). He has waxed friendly with his neighbor to the southward beyond the Khyber Pass-Lis Britannic Majesty's colonial government in India. Thus the British have been far happier than when plump Amanullah reigned, taking millions in gifts from them but making the Russians his closest economic allies. Far, far happier are they than during the subsequent brief reign of Bandit-King Bacha Sakao, whom Nadir had hanged and slowly strangled...
Almost from pier to podium popped busy, plump little Conductor Fritz Reiner. He had just stepped off the boat from Italy the day before his first Stadium concert. Gustily he spoke of his summer doings. He had conducted in Milan, Naples, had tried to reduce at Marienbad, had peered about Venice for antiques and lace. With five cameras (two cinema) he and his wife had photographed each other climbing up the Jungfrau, standing in front of Dr. Axel Munthe's San Michele on Capri...
...plump, liquid-eyed tenor is Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, who earns fat contracts by hurling lusty high C's at the boxes in William Tell, caroling lushly in operatic staples like La Traviata and Rigoletto. He has been paid well by the Metropolitan Opera. But he says that the U. S. is culturally immature, that he will stay in Europe next year when his contract expires. There he is more appreciated. In Paris, for instance, it is a gala occasion when he sings as guest star; the Opera pushes up its prices a bit (usually $3.20 for best orchestra seats...
...year ago Emil Szalay, middleaged, plump, walrus-moustached, met George ("Yurga") Endres and Alexander Magyar in the office of the Detroit Hungarian News. Captain Endres, a Wartime flyer of the Austro-Hungarian army, and Captain Magyar (real name: Wilchak), his pupil, wanted to fly from the U. S. to Budapest. The flight would be a great demonstration of protest against the division of Hungarian territory by the Treaty of Trianon after the War. Sausagemaker Szalay (pronounced sah-la-ee) saw his chance. He mortgaged his salami factory for $20,000, turned the money over to Endres & Magyar...