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...Short, rotund, with a greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...
...late William C. Bitting Sr. was a Baptist minister in St. Louis, a warm friend of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Never an active churchman, rotund, convivial, energetic Son Bitting specializes in church and religious bonds. In 25 years he has floated $90,000,000 worth. To most of his clients he points with pride. But when he comes to the Methodist Episcopal Church, largest U. S. Protestant denomination, Bondman Bitting begins to splutter...
...little Bardstown, Ky. (pop.: 1,767) last week a local legend was proudly celebrated as a national fact. Kentucky's rotund Senator Logan made a speech and ladies dressed in crinolines tittered and played hostess in "Federal Hill," the old home of Judge John Rowan. Bardstown believers were commemorating the birthday of a Rowan relation, Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster...
...being put in regular service between Kansas City and Omaha. She was a notable visitor the opening day- but not the first. That honor went to one Martin Svendsen, 19, at 9 a. m. He had been waiting at the gates 24 hr. for it. First official visitor was rotund Flyer Roscoe Turner bringing greetings from the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. William Randolph Hearst had inspected the plant, repaired, repainted and 90% new in exhibits, three days before (see p. 38). Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors had marshaled 300 scientists, industrialists and economists for a grand neotechnic forum...
...High Crime and Misdemeanor that Tory Churchill charged last week was that, before this report was presented, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, and the rotund Earl of Derby, member of the parliamentary committee on Indian reform, had invited the Manchester men to dinner at Lord Derby's London house, had filled them full of soft words, turtle soup and tawny port, had persuaded them to rewrite the report that they were about to submit...