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Pious Spaniards have long believed that few if any unbelievers are keen enough to outsmart a Jesuit. Last week their belief became a profound conviction. A Madrid court was asked to believe that in 1931 the Spanish Jesuits sold their $520,000 national headquarters in Madrid for $485 to a pious U. S. sculptor named Edmundo Quatrocchi whose principal achievement was the actual carving on Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies' monument in France commemorating the Battle of the Marne. If this was indeed a sale, the Spanish Republic's subsequent act in confiscating the Jesuit headquarters, under the impression that...
...Christ"; Bed Reader. When Howard Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have...
Efforts by Rome correspondents to simplify the situation led to a round of rumors that "Mussolini's war is likely to cost ten billion lire" ($825,000,000). This "inside figure" was based on nothing more profound than multiplying by the extremely convenient figure ten the sum II Duce says he has already spent on belligerent preparations, namely one billion lire ($82,500,000). The budget of Italy has not balanced throughout Depression, and the public debt, which stood at 97 billions ($8,002,500,000) two years ago, has now topped 105 billions...
...General Estigarribia, your words are a profound honor," cried General Penaranda, "and my country's army also acknowledges in your army the highest military virtues. We fought as men do, General Estigarribia...
That Mary was the only Hoerger who justified headlines last week must have been a profound disappointment to her mother, who has reared her girls as if they were guppies. As soon as her children were three months old, she tossed them into the water. All three could swim before they could walk. The backyard of the Hoerger home at Miami Beach is a swimming pool. The front yard is the Atlantic Ocean. When not swimming at home, Hoergers swim in more de luxe surroundings, the famed Miami Biltmore pool, where Mrs. Hoerger is swimming instructor. Their father, Fred Hoerger...