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...Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian job as president of the Paris Municipal Council when his good friend Jean Chiappe was forced to quit as Chief of the Paris Police. Soaring with him over the steaming, noisome jungle went his swank second wife, Dutch relict of a U. S. soap manufacturer, Michael Winburn (Omega, Cadum). So far as could be learned, the $390,000 contents of Mme Renard's jewel case are either lost in the Congo or stolen by some ignorant black. In Paris last week undertakers mended the seven mangled bodies...
Sympathy for the Switzes, strong when they were supposed to be undergoing a French third degree, evaporated as Mrs. Switz appeared hard and swank in a costume from the Rue de la Paix and Mr. Switz slouched in the witness chair, reeling off sums of money which he said he paid to spies. Said the Switzes: "We did it all for France." Thus far their peaching has been valuable enough to bring them definite assurances that they will merely be deported...
...ring masterfully ignored the general belief that one should not see one's bride on the wedding day before the ceremony. Piling his great bulk into an open Mercedes, already half full of roses and tulips, he drove to his Emmy's house on the same swank street as the U. S. Embassy, picked her up, drove on to the Realmchancellery, picked up Best Man Adolf Hitler and drove down a lane of 33,000 uniformed Nazis of both sexes...
...action for the disappointed Freshman to adopt. Many students now accepted for the Houses will not occupy their appointed places next fall. The significant group of "dropped" Freshmen; the large numbers who will not return for scholastic, financial, or personal reasons; the annual Sophomore exodus to the pseudo-swank of the now decrepit Gold Coast; all of these are good insurance that the bars will be raised to many before September arrives...
...Violet Van der Elst and her anti-capital punishment crusade. This irrepressible lady inherited from her Belgian husband a profitable shaving cream business (Shavex). Fiftyish, she heads three corporations, is a director of twelve. She claims that she sleeps on two hours a night, is never tired. In her swank Kensington home she fondles a fine collection of Oriental objets d'art, hole spiritualist meetings, makes phonograph records of them. Lately she has been untiring in behalf of one Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat...