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When Georges Barrere arrived in the U. S. 30 years ago he was roundly twitted because he wore a luxuriant spade beard, long pointed mustachios. Through these he managed to play a flute with uncommon skill, but it was not the wooden instrument his colleagues knew. The young Frenchman played a silver flute. Of the 30,000 professional flautists now in the U. S., all but five use an instrument of silver or some cheaper metal. But Georges Barrere, peer of them all, has gone two steps ahead. Ten years ago he took to playing on a $1,000 gold...
Another British Ambassador and another Premier, "Honest Broker" Pierre Laval, presently haggled out this minimum in Paris (see p. 15), but the urgent warning Sir Eric flashed to London had direct, immediate results. In London spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi was invited to Whitehall. There soothing assurances were poured into his ear by British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. Next a public speech was made by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in which he declared that no British Government hostility exists toward Italian Fascism and none toward the Dictator...
...though nothing had happened, the Dictator sent his Ambassador to Great Britain, spade-bearded Dino Grandi. around to tell the British Foreign Office that, yes, the Royal Italian Government will be pleased to join at London this autumn in the great Naval Conference made necessary by the expiration in 1936 of the Washington Naval Treaty. Most Britons had forgotten last week that the Italians had been invited to this Conference, which may never be held, but urbane Italy's acceptance was politely if frostily received...
Forty-five minutes later Dr. Carmine Gerade Berardinelli arrived to attend the young woman who, he had been told, had had a miscarriage. Dr. Berardinelli, insistent upon seeing the fetus, went out with the father who dug it up carelessly with a spade...
...behalf of the Senate's lobby investigation, Senator Hugo La Fayette Black last week diligently plied a spade in his dirt pile, "big enough to keep 20 committees busy." Almost equally diligent was Chairman O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, bent on a similar investigation. Some spadefuls they turned...