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...last week the Italo-British Question was solved by Benito Mussolini and Sir Eric Drummond, although the Dictator and the Ambassador obviously could divulge nothing until after Britain's general election this week. In neither Rome nor London could the slightest confirmation be obtained, though in Mayfair some swank wits opined: "The reason Baldwin called our election so suddenly was that he was afraid the trouble with Italy might not last much longer." This frivolous view Italians could not take. From the King down they were nervous, anxious and resentful of Britain's jam-packing the Mediterranean with...
...elevate Blessed Martin to sainthood is being fostered not only by priests who give Porres leaflets to Pullman porters but also by 50,000 members of the Blessed Martin Guild, founded by The Torch, Dominican monthly whose editor is Rev. Edward Hughes 0. P. In the Dominicans' swank Manhattan Church of St. Vincent Ferrer last month was unveiled a statue of Blessed Martin (see cut, p. 46), first of a Negro in any U. S. Catholic church. "Non Sum Papabilis." When the College of Cardinals gathered in 1903 to elect a Pope,the following conversation took place between...
Gugsa into Honey? A terrified, bug-eyed, berobed young man was Emperor Haile Selassie's son-in-law Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa when he went over to the Italians (TIME, Oct. 21). Swaggering about last week in a swank Italian uniform, puttees and sun helmet, Ras Gugsa was ready to be set up as a puppet ruler by Il Duce should occasion offer...
...Theatre new dimensions in the realm of naturalism. Displayed on the stage where David Belasco used to draw plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins dive with a splash into what normally would be the orchestra pit, but which gives every illusion of being...
...Examiner, Banker Hall became assistant publicity director for the Harris bank, was a crack bond salesman at the time of the War, learned while overseas that he had been made sales manager of the bank's investment department. Stocky, round-faced, brown-eyed, bald, Banker Hall lives in swank Winnetka, golfs...