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...with his high-hatted entourage, Edward of Wales espied a man in a boater as battered as his own, waved his bedraggled straw. London tailors called the boater escapade last week the worst sartorial atrocity committed by H. R. H. since last month, when he turned up in a sleek cutaway coat and rough tweed trousers to pin medals on some London policemen...
...days later Lieut.-Colonel von Papen, sleekly groomed for the occasion, made his first formal address as Chancellor to the equally sleek Agricultural Council, central body of German Junkers (landed aristocrats). Mindful of the warning from South Germany, he pledged his Cabinet to "adhere to the framework of the [Republican] Constitution," but he raised loudest hochs by exclaiming: "The unprecedented spiritual and material situation of the German people requires liberation from the chains of party politics and unification of all forces for the rebirth of Germany...
...Epsom crowd-over 500,000-was well-pleased by the parade to the post. Orwell walked in an efficient fashion, sleek and dignified, while the other horses pranced and sidled. When the race started, Orwell, still sleek and dignified, was less efficient. He stayed in the bunch behind the leaders while first Cockpen, then Lord Derby's Portofino. then Dastur took the lead. With a furlong and a half to go, Dastur was still ahead with Miracle running second and April the Fifth third. In black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle...
...years ago Boeing Airplane Co. turned out the Monomail, a sleek, fast, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear. Main features of the Monomail's design were worked into a big twin-engined bomber recently developed by Boeing for the Army. Last week Boeing announced near completion, for autumn delivery, of the first of a fleet of mail-&-passenger planes adapted from the bomber design for United Air Lines (like Boeing a subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp...
...below and in front of the stand on which Dictator Josef Stalin stood rocklike and immobile from 9 a. m. until 7 p. m. (with time out for lunch). Sharp on the stroke of 9 a. m., War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov cantered into the Red Square on a sleek bay steed, three Red Army bands blared the "Internationale" and 60,000 troops began an earth-shaking tramp led by picked units of the Ogpu (secret service). New fighting units this year were eight-wheeled "Speed Tanks" mounting two-inch guns and four-motored bombing planes. Swooping through...