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...While Greek cheers and hand-clapping by Insull sympathizers rocked the court his three lawyers jostled each other in their efforts to be first to kiss his sunken cheeks and the close of Presiding Judge Panegyrakis' decision refusing extradition was lost in pandemonium. "I am very disappointed," said rueful Hunter Harness. "I am sorry for young Mr. Harness," cried generous Quarry Insull. "These Greek judges are ideal! I am more than satisfied. I shall stay here the rest of my life. Greece is a small but great country!" Back in Athens' Hotel Grande Bretagne, popular Guest Insull...
...number of times foreigners, especially Britons, have shaken rueful heads as they composed the Soviet Union's epitaph can scarcely be computed. . . . This not to mention a more regrettable incident of three years ago when an American correspondent discovered half the Ukraine flaming with rebellion and proved it by authentic documents eagerly proffered by Rumanians...
...hopes in Washington that Congressional leaders were persuaded by the State Department to hurl no speeches at France which might make the Premier-designate's task more difficult. With an effort Congressmen & Senators bottled their spleen. Thus aided M. Chautemps proceeded to?fail. He found plenty of French Deputies rueful over what they had done but no majority ready...
...Chaliapin lives in France where last summer he made a cinema of Don Quixote in French and English. The picture was taken in mountainlands high above Nice and the natives are still talking about the rueful old man who rode about on a ribby white horse which he insisted on flitting each day. In his U. S. concerts Chaliapin will sing three songs written for his cinema by Jacques Ibert, pupil of Maurice Ravel...
...RUEFUL MATING-G. B. Stern-Knopf...