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Still more exclusive back-patting travel group is the Kee Club, named after the mythical Kee bird, which flies around the North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...
...riotously voted an investigation of fuel oil rationing. (The House GOP leader applied an old gag to a new situation: "I hear that a lot of parents around the United States are being called Key Birds-they shudder down in the bottom of their cages and say, 'Key-rist, it's cold.' ") It made little difference that this is a Federal problem: Illinoisans must be kept informed (and GOPsters can gather a little campaign material). By the time the investigation is completed, it will be warm...
...Santa Monica dance marathon as it passed the 200-hour mark, encouraged one of the contestants by remarking: "You don't know what it is to be tired unless you've worked for Curtiz." Big, balding, muscular Director Curtiz is married to but living apart from Scena rist Bess Meredyth. Only extravagance he permits himself on his $3,000 a week is his two-goal polo...
...series of extremely polite, individual (not form) letters begging that no more lubricants be sold, for the time being, to Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark, who have bought all the lubricants Great Britain thinks they need just now. To the U. S. sailed two Cross emissaries-Professor Charles Rist, formerly of the Bank of France, and Frank Ashton-Gwatkin of the British Foreign Office-to try to explain to irritated U. S. businessmen the finer points and necessities of Economic Warfare...
...profit" in devalued francs) and to buy bonds payable in francs, dollars or sterling upon demand; finally Finance Minister Auriol inspired confidence by giving up his stranglehold on the French currency exchange control fund and this will be managed by a new committee, one of which is Professor Charles Rist, long-time Bank of France executive and about as radical as Virginia's Carter Glass. In his speech Premier Blum had smoothly avoided replying to taunts that he himself seemed to have become about as radical as Britain's Ramsay MacDonald and to be leaving in the lurch...