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Arnold Sigurd Kirkeby (rhymes with irk-a-bee), 44, breakfasted early at Manhattan's tony Hampshire House, which he owns. After breakfast he slowly smoked his way through two fat, black Rey Del Mundo cigars. Then he was ready for battle...
...room were editors, representing eight Argentine periodicals which speak for the Falange, the Fascist Party of Spain. The journalists had been summoned by the Spanish press attache, Don Jose Ignacio Ramos Rey, and his invitation contained strong words...
This remark accurately summarized both Admiral King's reputation in the prewar Navy and the principal reason for his commanding the wartime Navy. Few men in peace or war have known "Rey" King well enough to find the warm self behind his hard, hazel eyes. Well does he know that others in the Navy hold him to be a brutal and forthright man, savage in his judgments and merciless in his expression of them, uncompromising and often extreme in his demands upon his subordinates, a man who can be as forbidding in family crises...
Baldish, bespectacled, 45-year-old Thornton Niven Wilder made news many times before last week. In 1927 he bounced to fame with his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which sold over 250,000 copies and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1935 his novel Heaven's My Destination, which he described as "diluted Dante," was a Book-of-the-Month choice and a subject for heated discussion. Then & there forswearing fiction for the theater, he emerged in 1938 with Our Town, whose sceneryless stage flabbergasted Broadway, fetched another Pulitzer Prize...
...pitching realm, Mort Waldstein stands as the sixth League hurler and Captain Lou Clay eighth. Waldstein's 21 strikeouts in 26 active innings comes only behind the 31 whiffs in 40 frames by Ted Harrison of Yale and the 23 in 35 innings of Princeton's Rey Talcott...