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...lectured on democracy at University of Chicago since last February (honorary degrees from Princeton, Yale); Poet Archibald MacLeish, newly appointed Librarian of Congress (Doctor of Letters, Yale); U. S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (Doctor of Civil Law, Oxford), who was saluted with a Latin pun: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas (Happy indeed is he who can understand legal arguments...
...Papam. . . ." ("I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope.") There was a cheer. He continued, spacing his words dramatically: "Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum dominum meum. . . ." ("My most eminent and most reverend lord. . . .") "Dominum Cardinalem Eugenium. ..." A roar rose from the Square, before the Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor, the throng, with apparent spontaneity...
...Marquis Quińones de León, Generalissimo Franco's French representative, made ready to move into the big, bleak Avenue George V Embassy, and in London the Duke of Alba, Generalissimo Franco's agent to Britain, prepared to take up quarters in the imposing Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Opposition M. P.s cried "Shame!" and "Betrayal!" in the House of Commons when Mr. Chamberlain announced the recognition of Generalissimo Franco; in France Socialist leader Léon Blum felt "nauseated" when M. Daladier made his announcement to the Chamber of Deputies. But both the Chamber...
Seen off at Paris by José Maria Quiñones de LeÓn, unofficial agent of Rebel Spain in France and longtime Ambassador to France of King Alfonso XIII, M. Berard would say only that he was going to Burgos to "settle some questions with good neighbors." Obviously referring to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement trips, he pointed slyly to an umbrella he was carrying, called it "standard equipment on the kind of trip I am making...
Buck Benny in Paris, a troupe of shapely American chorus girls, gowns by je ne sais qui, a sprinkling of music, Joan Bennett, some gags and a plot from the days of the silent film-all together they go to make up "Artists and Models Abroad." Of course the film makes no sense whatever; it is a conglomeration of disjointed ideas, situations, people. But it does manage to be entertaining, fairly consistently. "Mother Nature's big mistake," our own rip-snortin' Buck, is stranded in Paris together with a few dozen bathing beauty winners, and not a penny...