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Garbage and Cripples. He wandered about Vienna, a Rip van Winkle living on dreams of court splendor; sometimes awakened by the sound of rifle fire and the sight of mobs pouring through the street...
Some of our correspondents ate Christmas dinner in style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert...
...Relief. Sonny Tufts, 29, is 4-F's gift to Hollywood. He stands 6 ft. 4 in his socks, bears down on them with 200 Ib. of well-balanced beef and bone. But under all this somatic splendor is a broken man: two shattered shoulders, two knees with floating cartilages, one cracked pelvis, one crushed hand. Causes: sports and fights from prep school on. When he first came up for the Army physical, Tufts was classified 1-B. He asked what that might mean. "It means," snarled a sergeant, "you can relieve one WAC for active service." The next...
...mellifluous voice was familiar. The 225-lb. body, superbly carried, the pouched eyes, the air of expensive splendor were familiar too. Most familiar of all was the role. Massachusetts' former Governor and present Democratic National Committeeman, Boston's three-time Mayor, Congressman James Michael Curley has again been indicted, is again the underdog...
Student Body. At war-depopulated Tulane University the June graduating class of the College of Law posed for its picture in solitary splendor...