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...session when fire inexplicably burst forth in the women's dressmaking department on the second floor of Les Nouvelles Galeries. Into swift action went the bearded personnel manager. With smoke and flames spurting from Les Nouvelles Galeries and the whole second floor blazing, rotund Louis Frichet rushed panting up the stair case to the roof, carrying an armful of blankets...
...Bluff, rotund Primo de Rivera seemed solidly in power in Spain from 1923 to 1930. He scrapped the constitution, ruled by decree, sent his opponents to exile, clamped down on free speech and press. When Marcosson saw Primo after Alfonso's abdication, he had no uniform, smartness, or confidence, said good-by shakily, raced to Paris where he died forgotten in a Left Bank hotel...
...Nebraska's 44th Coronation Ball of Ak-Sar-Ben*- the social high jinks of the State's big annual autumn festival-the 44th King of Ak-Sar-Ben (William Otto Swanson, ruddy-faced Omaha clothier), clothed in proud embarrassment and silks, was crowned, throned, cheered. Rich, rotund, charitable King Swanson had twice previously (1937, 1938) been decorated by the King of Sweden. Honoring France's liveliest cinemactor with the Legion of Honor, the French Government made him Chevalier Maurice Chevalier...
...Musik mil dem ABC jüdischer und nichtarischer Musik-beflissener. The third edition of this witching work, which last week reached U. S. shores, showed Nazi inquisitors to be more thorough than accurate. Among the prominent "Jewish" musicians listed: Chicago's retiring Yankee Composer John Alden Carpenter; rotund Danceband-leader Paul Whiteman; lusty, kewpie-faced Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior. Fumed Tenor Melchior, when informed of his nomination: "I am a Dane, without a drop of Jewish blood in me, and I am determined to seek redress...
...Rotund Bruce Bliven, editor of the liberal New Republic, told the graduating class of Long Island University: "The American press looks a great deal better to some of its critics than it did a few years ago. This is not primarily because it has improved-although that is the case-but because the press in other parts of the world has become so much worse...