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...Germany's nearby mountains. Mountain-bred Swiss were flocking to the gently rolling hill country of Lake Constance. Once again, the great seasonal migration was on, and all over Europe indefatigable optimists were crossing and crisscrossing each other's paths in a brief, determined effort to sniff the green grass growing in somebody else's yard, for, as a sweating porter in Milan's grimy and teeming Central Station put it, "L'estate fa la follia" -Summertime makes for madness...
Swaggering Newspaperman Richardson assiduously cultivated his sources, righteously used them to sniff out corruption, solve crimes, dredge up scandal. In 1924, after finding a missing friend for Hearst's famed Editorialist Arthur Brisbane, Star Reporter Richardson found himself, at 30, the Hearst chain's youngest city editor. Then he drank himself out of his first Hearst career in less than four years, spent the next four lurching from despised publicity jobs to outright handouts. Asked what he had done between 1932 and 1936, Richardson once rasped: "I was drunk...
...Paris French art critics, who are inclined to sniff at American taste, were wide-eyed and rams last week over the collection of an American-and an American banker, at that. Hit of the Paris season is the Orangerie des Tuileries exhibit of a masterpiece-studded collection lent by Manhattan's Robert Lehman. Delighted Paris art lovers and tourists swarmed to the exhibit by the thousands; even the exhibition poster (see cut) became a collector's favorite. One French connoisseur was heard to exclaim, "We never dreamed that anybody in America had a collection so wonderful, so well...
...jury-trial gimmick, forced New York's Emanuel Celler and other advocates into an uncomfortable posture of constant defense. Between speeches they clapped friendly arms around Republican shoulders, added private pleas to public petitions in behalf of the amendment. When the Southerners hinted that they could sniff 240 votes in favor of their amendment, Administration forces were flabbergasted and alarmed...
Last week a record field, 69 spruced-up dogs from 16 states, came down to Maytag's 13,000-acre plantation near Union Springs. Ala. to sniff for the championship. Running in pairs, the dogs were judged on bird-finding skill, response to their handlers, and on two points that the experts agree are born instincts: pointing and ranging widely over the field. Many of the top dogs are able and willing to stay on point up to two hours and cover 15 miles during a 90-min. hunt...