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Ever shrouded in discretion are proceedings of the French Academy, but each new "Immortal" is supposed to make a speech and his words are always released. Recently dapper General Max Weygand, "Savior of Poland" (1920) and successor in French popular esteem to the late, great...
Last week Britain fervently welcomed Andrew William Mellon, more as a savior than an Ambassador. All the denials in the world could not dispel the fixed British notion that this shy, fragile old man brought, tucked away in his shiny new diplomatic baggage, a U. S. solution to War Debts & Reparations. Newspapers printed column after column about his vast wealth, his patrician manners, his astuteness in finance and art collecting. A modest advertisement that someone with £250,000 to spend wanted to buy an art collection was ignorantly but persistently ascribed to the new little figure at the Court...
Pensioned, Raymond Poincare, one-time president of France, "Savior of the Franc"; by the Chamber of Deputies; at 200,000 francs (currently $7,880) a year. Should he die before his wife, his relict will receive half as much...
...obtains for a fee the signature of a Scotch sailor who happens to be in the Shanghai jail. A later divorce is promised, and as neither party has seen the other, the sailor imagines his wife to be a straight-laced old maid; while the missionary assumes that her savior is a lecherous young jack-tar. The two do not meet until they return to Scotland some time later, where the girl turns out to be the daughter of Lord Cairnsmuir and the man no mere mariner but the owner of a yacht. Not realizing these facts, the be castled...
...lacked in musical force. R. B. Harrison '32, the snark-hunter and inebriated match-maker, who sang several solos and performed a difficult and effective dance, took the honors for the evening. With R. L. Kimbrough '33, the show's outstanding dancer, he roved about the stage with complete savior-faire...