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...speech, getting it by the flick of a switch in either French or English. Everyone agreed that it was a great speech-one of the noblest, most factual, irrefutable and moving ever made before the League of Nations. Yet it was totally without effect on Geneva's sleek, hard, slippery statesmen...
Purring out of Paris a sleek car carried new French Premier Leon Blum last week to Geneva. There, while Sanctions are disposed of (see above), M. Blum proposed to lobby industriously in League corridors for creation of a United States of Europe. That France would make this move was announced to the Chamber in solemn terms last week by the Jewish Premier's obsequious Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Said he: "We shall ask for the convocation of the Commission of Study for a European Union that was created by Aristide Briand. This commission includes all European States, whether members...
Chicago's Northwestern University announced a course on "Scenic Design" by able, sleek-haired Harvardman Lee Simonson. Cinemactor Irving Pichel was invited to University of California at Los Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...
Impassive as a baby and equally susceptible, enormously pleased with the sleek clothes and large automobiles which changed circumstances made it possible for him to possess, Louis was no less pleased with this explanation of the change. To illustrate his own faith in the legend of Joe Louis, he got married two hours before he fought Baer. The more perfectly he lived up to the weird picture of himself created by the Press, the more frantically the Press worked to improve the picture. By last autumn Louis was not merely the ablest fighter of his generation but the greatest...
...Next day the reported purchase was denied, and in the U. S. arrived first pictures of the christening in London of Countess Barbara's burly three-month son Lance. Held up for photographers at the door of Marlborough House Chapel, gurgling Baby Lance showed less resemblance to his sleek parents than to his chubby grandfather, Franklyn L. Hutton, who beamed over Countess Barbara's shoulder...