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...journal and a voluminous correspondence, with a remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning's. To her son William, who went to sea as a midshipman, she wrote passionately loving letters. Excerpt: "Last night I had you close where you used to lie so snug and warm when you drew the life stream 20 years ago, and where the heart still beats to love you dearly till its last sigh, which even then will love you best...
...Century and Broadway are composed of company-owned baggage and public cars coupled with matching all-room sleepers built by Pullman Co. Each has eight all-room Pullmans, accommodations including snug roomettes, single and double bedrooms, compartments, drawing rooms. Each has two diners. The Century's, informal but sober, stick to rust tones and grey. The Broadway's, more splendiferous, have a speak-easy style midsection with side-seat nooks. Each has a bar-lounge, the Century's, mannish, leathery, the Broadway's, like an intimate cocktail room...
...into the little Welsh port of Fishguard, the motor vessel Innisfallen slipped last week on its regular ferry run across St. George's Channel from Cork. Below decks a cargo of Irish cattle and pigs bellowed and squealed. Higher up, in a snug cabin, a heavyset, greying gentleman of 64 and a red-haired girl of 25 slumbered, as they afterwards said, undisturbed. The noisy beef and bacon had been put ashore long before the two passengers emerged and a newshawk obtained their first honeymoon interview...
Most sensitive bump on Italy's shin bone last week was tiny, historic Ravello. There, in the snug, age-whitened Villa Cimbrone, overlooking the blue Mediterranean from its mountain perch, two people were trying not to notice that all the world was watching them. The man: snowy-haired, limelight-loving, 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski, whose American wife divorced him last December. The woman: Hollywood's No. 1 recluse, Greta Garbo...
Hungary, still an "enemy country" to France, was not officially included in M. Delbos' itinerary but his train halted at Budapest on the way across to Prague. When the train pulled in at 6 a. m. Foreign Minister Kálmán de Kánya lay snug in his warm bed, having sent an underling to get M. Delbos up in the cold dawn to receive M. de Kánya's good wishes...