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Much closer to Franklin Roosevelt are the men to whom he turns for simple fellowship. The President knows that what he tells safe, sound Henry ("Henny Penny") Morgenthau will not pop out in some gossip column the next morning; for that reason, the Secretary of the Treasury rates higher as...
The heart of France gave one more convulsive spurt at this treatment. Said the new Foreign Minister Paul Baudoin, a Reynaud protege and World War I ace: "We are never ready to accept shameful conditions. . . . The French whole people will know what to do."
Joseph Michael ("Ducky") Medwick is one of the hardest-hitting outfielders in baseball. During eight seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, he averaged .338 at bat, drove in 873 runs and scored 771 runs himself (including 145 homers). Last year, when Leo ("Lippy") Durocher left the Cardinals to become manager...
If 65-year-old Mackenzie King serves out his term, he will have been Prime Minister for 19 years, not quite so long as Sir John Macdonald but five years longer than the late great Liberal leader, Sir Wilfred Laurier, whose protege he was.
Revealing of Wilde's character is Biographer Winwar's picture of the sun-flower-&-lily school he dramatized, the arch-esthete contemporaries he cultivated and admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of...