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...life, a love which she could not master!" Although Dictator Mussolini and Dictator Hitler have just linked their countries in a close pact, official German radio stations were soon broadcasting the substance of French reports which were printed ten days before the shooting by Paris' often amazingly forehanded scoop-weekly Aux Ecoutes ("The Eavesdropper...
...Nazi broadcast jazzed up this able Aux Ecoutes scoop to tell Germans that not $790 but $75,000 was given Mile de Fontages-a sum which no statesman in thrifty Europe would ever have to part with to a journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared...
...immediately ordered leather boots to be fitted around all control columns, covering the V-shaped well. Spotting this innovation at Newark, the New York Herald Tribune's crack Aviation Editor Carl B. Allen immediately understood it, broke the story in a front-page scoop...
Second only to William Randolph Hearst for his personal scoop of King Edward's determination to marry the Woman of the Year (TIME, Nov. 2), in the journalistic history of the great Simpson Story the name of Newbold Noyes ranked high for his intimate reports of his visit to Fort Belvedere ten days before the abdication (TIME, Dec. 28). Rare authenticity attached to this extraordinary series because Mr. Noyes, 45, is the dignified associate editor of the Washington Star, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his father is president of the impeccable Associated Press, Mrs. Simpson...
...shortage will be is anybody's guess. Natives were still busy in Africa last week harvesting the pods of the cacao tree. Shaped like a football and nearly as big, the yellow or red pods are tossed into heaps by the cutters, who return to slice them open, scoop out the cocoa beans and pile them in boxes or wrappings of plantain leaf for a week's fermentation. They are then dried brown, either in kilns or in the sun, and sacked. Many an Accra tribesman has toted two 60 lb. "headloads" of cocoa beans...