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...rotund German refugee, now head of the Department of International Studies and Relations at University of London, named Reinhold Schairer had a sensational story to tell: A British committee had collected evidence that Soviet Russia has stationed Communist educators in strategic positions through Europe, primed to take over the universities with a new (Communist) educational plan when and if Germany collapses. Britain, as a counter move, plans to infiltrate continental schools with educators prepared to teach democracy. Already organized in the U. S. is a committee to help in this job, the U. S. Committee on Educational Reconstruction, headed...
Kentucky's bluegrass country is a fertile region, some 80 miles across, in the rolling foothills of the Alleghenies. Official spokesmen of the bluegrass country are the Lexington Herald and Leader. Both owned by rotund, ribald little Publisher John George Stoll, 62, who distilled a fortune out of bluegrass whiskey, the morning Herald (circulation, 18,876) is for Roosevelt, evening Leader (22,119) for Willkie. But on one question Publisher Stoll's papers are agreed: that bluegrass horses nave no peers...
When, last December, rotund, boyish Publisher George Fort Milton, 45, had to sell his once prosperous Chattanooga News to Grocer Roy McDonald, publisher of the Chattanooga Free Press, he made himself a martyr to New Dealers. Because Milton had fought Tennessee Electric Power Co. with all his might, and T. E. P. (subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern) had fought back, leftist journals like The Nation and The New Republic printed tearful articles implying that T. E. P. was largely responsible for driving Milton's News to the wall...
...Francisco rotund Alexander Woollcott, playing in The Man Who Came to Dinner, dined with friends, on snails with French dressing, rice balls, bisque of clam, baby squid with sauce a la Genoise, saddle of lamb, fondue of truffles, cress salad. Result: he got a heart attack, was put to bed and the show had to close...
Present head of Charity is rotund, cheery Dr. Roy William Wright, first cousin of defeated Governor Earl Long...