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When James was packed off to swank Groton School in 1920 Father was hopelessly stumping the country as Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency. By the time James had made the football team as left tackle, Father was apparently bedridden for life with infantile paralysis...
Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, a thousand-acre open space, long the Fatherland's proudest parade ground, was made over into Europe's crack airport five years after the War. Fifteen minutes' taxi ride away is the heart of the German capital, swank hotels like the Kaiserhof, Adlon, Esplanade. Though still one of the most modern airports in the world Tempel-hofer's buildings last week were ready for destruction to make way for an even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function...
...State-supported Lutheran Church, became a pastor in 1924. Ten years later Pastor Niemoller, who threw into saving German souls the same brawling vigor that stood him in good stead sinking ships, had corralled Berlin's wealthiest and most influential congregation for his Jesus Christus Kirche in the swank suburb Dahlem. Such redoubtable parishioners as Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, autocratic Reichsbank Governor, immensely liked the two-fisted sermons Pastor Niemoller preached...
Hugging the coast of southern Georgia lie half-a-dozen bosky islands-Jekyl, where the Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past...
...Dominions it is not done, but in England last week swank Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, M. P., did not seem to think he was hurting his standing with his constituents when he sued to obtain half the $400,000 yearly income of his wife, a sister of Lady Louis Mountbatten...