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...Naturally, I am extremely disappointed at this turn of events," stated Parker last night, "but if other interested students will join me, we may be able to follow Kermit Roosevelt's example by forming a volunteer regiment...
...Fighting 69th (Warner Bros.), a fictionized account of the intimate life and exploits of Manhattan's famed World War regiment continues, in slightly modified form, Warners' long time efforts to refine through suffering the character of their ace triggerman, James Cagney. Sometimes the effort has resulted in Mr. Cagney's death (The Roaring Twenties). Sometimes he survives (Here Comes the Navy). In either case his reward has usually been the love of a pure, high minded girl. As Jerry Plunkett, a Brooklyn braggart, James Cagney is not only a disgrace to his semisavage comrades, but he turns...
...were never subdued by anybody. The first Mannerheim of record was a Swedish merchant named Marheim, of Dutch or German descent, who died in 1667. His grandson picked up a title and his son, who was named Carl Erik Mannerheim, moved to Finland as a major in an infantry regiment and was condemned to death (later pardoned) for participating in an officers' revolt against the Crown. The next Mannerheim was a judge and entomologist and the next one started out as a spoiled intellectual rebel and ended up as a tycoon with a rich wife. He had eight children...
...ranks; the mistress of a Tommy on active service today receives from the State the same allowance as though she were his wife; Tommy when home on leave can, for the first time, dine in the same restaurants as Army officers; and when Private Atkins goes back to his regiment he finds solicitous "personnel officers"-created by Hore-Belisha-who have no other duty than to watch over his personal welfare. In short the Army has been "vigorously democratized," and there was no question last week of canceling out these reforms when Neville Chamberlain quietly obtained the resignation...
...they number about 100, are said to be located in all U. S. State capitals, in 20 foreign capitals, in other likely listening posts. Three Confidentially Yours contributors are supposed to be former U. S. Cabinet mem bers, another a German officer who was in Hitler's regiment. Others: a Senator's wife, a British Foreign Office ex, a titled lady close to Wally Simpson...