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...sister Lady Vansittart to Berlin to be his Embassy hostess during the Olympic Games. With the innocence of a fox in lamb's clothing, Sir Robert then simply went along with his charmingly social wife to Berlin "for entirely personal reasons." At once every chancellory in Europe sprang to the alert, expecting some major British move behind the Nazi scenes...
...feet into the State of Virginia's side a few yards aft of the merrymakers. No one was seriously hurt. Taken off four and a half hours later by a ferryboat, Governor Nice telegraphed his wife: "Don't wait up for me. Be home late. Boat sprang a leak...
Sweeping the U. S. last week was a simple-minded new game called "Handies" or "Dillies." Kansas City attributed the game to University of Missouri undergraduates, who declined the credit. Cleveland believed it originated from some antics in the film Millions in the Air. Manhattan guessed that it sprang from the sign language used in broadcasting studios. The Chicago American was offering daily prizes for new "Handies." Fox Movietone issued a "Handles" film...
Last week the Washington Art Galleries announced an auction sale of M. Ghods's personal effects. Listed were 153 separate items, including 144,656 sq. ft. of Persian rugs and carpets, miniatures, manuscripts, brocades, silverware, paintings, etc., the rugs alone dutiable at $72,233.35. Customs men suddenly sprang to life...
Marian ("Swede") Mansfield, 18, Northwestern University sophomore, diver, who, her own turn finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost...