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...House of Commons the chapel-like benches were so crowded that lanky Sir John Simon was forced to squat on the steps of the Speaker's dais. Rotund Tory Winston Churchill, fresh from his startling accusations against Lord Derby and Sir Samuel Hoare (see p. 16), was too late to find a seat on the Government side, and he was forced to cross the floor and perch on a few inches of cushion next to wild-eyed Laborite James Maxton whose hair is longer than Greta Garbo...
MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the great Hercule who, after propounding alternative solutions to his jury of two, retires modestly...
...chief field representative and investigator is Miss Lorena Hickok who for eight years worked for the Associated Press. She is a rotund lady with a husky voice, a peremptory manner, baggy clothes. In her day one of the country's best female newshawks, she was assigned to Albany to cover the New York Executive Mansion where she became fast friends with Mrs. Roosevelt. Since then she has gone around a lot with the First Lady, up to New Brunswick and down to Warm Springs. Last July Mr. Hopkins, who is a great admirer of Mrs. Roosevelt, hired Miss Hickok...
Died. John Henry ("Uncle John") McCooey, 69, Democratic boss of Brooklyn since 1909, Democratic National Committeeman from New York; of myocarditis; in Brooklyn. A rotund, jovial man with sweeping white mustaches, he kept his machine firmly allied to Tammany Hall except for one quickly healed break in 1925. With the Fusion victory of last November he found his dominion slipping, saw Federal patronage dispensed in his own demesne without his consent...
...copy came Today, the weekly that Professor Raymond Moley left President Roosevelt's side to edit, with Vincent Astor's money behind him and Journalist V. V. McNitt's experience behind them both. "Chiselers In Action" shouted a red headband and in the cover cartoon a rotund Andrew Mellon wearing J. P. Morgan's watch-chain chopped a hole in the side of the dory S. S. Recovery, apparently preferring the Rugged Individualism life preserver around his neck to the NRA sail bellying nobly from the mast...