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North of Bryansk, the maiden's soldier attacked at Spas Demensk...
...White was torn down in 1913, replaced by the larger, more elaborate Greenbrier. But the resort continued to be known as The White. The C. & O. bought it, made it into one of the few U.S. luxury resorts to compare with Europe's swankier spas. Its 7,000 acres have three golf courses; there is a spur for private railroad cars, an airport for private planes. For five months, German diplomats and newsmen were quartered there before being exchanged for Americans held in Europe...
...late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres. Always he came back with some important token, which he personally hung on the already crowded walls of his rambling duplex penthouse on upper Fifth Avenue. Unmarried, he called his pictures his "children...
Quiet. Meanwhile, in Germany Füher Hitler went at week's end to his cool retreat in Bavaria. Many of his political lieutenants were taking a rest. The German generals were said to be scattered in spas around the country. The Foreign Office at Berlin was almost deserted and hard-working Nazi editorial writers, finding little news to discuss, ridiculed the "democracy-manufactured" crisis over Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, and made fun of the "'war of nerves" which the French and British Governments had professed to believe was beginning. In fact, official Germany last...
...bath houses and a new hotel) constitute Saratoga Spa. They cost the State of New York $6,000,000 plus a $3,200,000 loan from RFC. Saratoga Spa is the only establishment of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.* In equipment and luxury it surpasses the German Spas whose regimens of catharsis and bathing it imitates. With only two bathhouses operating last year Saratoga Spa gave 101,449 treatments at $1.25 to $1.75 a bath, $1.50 to $2.00 a colonic irrigation, 1? a tumbler of mineral water. With the whole establishment running, Saratogans expect 25,000 visitors to take...