Word: son-in-law
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When Haverford asked René de Chambrun, son-in-law of France's No. 1 Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval, to address the student body Dr. Morley rejected Dr. Hotson's suggestion that he also invite British Novelist Somerset Maugham. And when Dr. Reitzel invited Eugene Houdry, president of France Forever and a supporter of General de Gaulle, Dr. Morley objected, and the speech was canceled...
Brahms: Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, with the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). The Brahms concertos are as massively splendiferous as the Brahms symphonies. In this one, Toscanini, his pianist son-in-law and the recording engineers (it was made in Carnegie Hall instead of in NBC's woolly-sounding Studio 8-H) do a superb...
...longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt (who helped to get him his appointment) and, of course, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and General John J. Pershing...
...Daily News observed that after Correspondents Frank Smothers and Richard Mowrer got their walking papers it "made one final effort to cover Italy by assigning to Rome one of its most experienced and tactful correspondents. . . . Whitaker had won the friendship of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Italian Foreign Minister, Marshals Graziani and Badoglio and other Italian notables. . . . Although Whitaker was strongly democratic in his personal convictions, he was at great pains in his dispatches to reflect Fascist policies and views accurately. . . . Whitaker was frequently denounced as a pro-Fascist in letters from Daily News readers...
...press blustered about the bread shortage, which it blamed on the British blockade. This week Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, hopped into a car in Madrid and set out for the Italian Riviera to meet Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who undoubtedly would remind the Spaniards of all the favors Italy did for Franco's Spain when Italy seemed bigger potatoes. As Vichy denied Marshal Petain would join the conference, the Frenchman started for a "few days' rest" at his wife...