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Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur, Military Adviser to the Philippine Commonwealth, had just taken a demotion in rank. As he stood at a window in his penthouse apartment atop the swank Manila Hotel, looking out on the bay, on the brooding fortress of Corregidor, he was (for practical purposes) no longer a field marshal or the four-starred general he had been when he retired three and a half years ago from the U.S. Army. His Commander in Chief had just called him back to that Army in reduced but impressive rank...
...Bookseller Henry Schuman, dealer in rare medical books. Mr. Schuman has made a very good thing out of what started as a hobby. Last week he moved ten tons (about 20,000 volumes) of valuable books to his new, five-story house-and-bookshop on Manhattan's swank East 70th Street...
...from Germany. The Nazis were sore about comments made by wry Elmer Davis in Manhattan as follow-up to a CBS radio interview in Berlin with Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse week before. Said Commentator Davis of Author Wodehouse, released from an internment camp and put at Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon so he could broadcast for the Nazis...
...Nazis seemed last week to be planning an extraordinary new radio coup. Fortnight ago they released tall, bald, bespectacled Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse from an internment camp at Tost, ensconced him at Government expense in a suite in Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon, gave him permission to come and go as he pleased within the confines of the Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid...
Young Segura may be no Perry, Craw ford or Von Cramm, but he is the most fascinating foreigner to invade U.S. tennis courts since dazzling Henri Cochet. Like Cochet, Segura picked up the game as ball boy: at Ecuador's swank Guayaquil Tennis Club. Small and puny, he found two hands better than one, never gave up his ten-fingered grip...