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...Cabinet, was indirectly threatened with imprisonment last week unless he watched his step. A civil servant since 1905, Sir John became known as "The Man Without Mercy" for his administration (as joint Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) of Britain's Black and Tan police during the Irish Rebellion of 1919-21 and for his stern rule as Bengal's Governor from...
...spectacular sellout, is expected to net at least $5,000. Dressed in grey coats, each with a jet black carnation in his buttonhole, Ellington's 15 musicians played many such Ellington favorites as the Black and Tan Fantasy, Mood Indigo, Rockin' in Rhythm. Duke affably prowled before his men in his sweeping tails, conducting, adding neat phrases on the piano, introducing his numbers with graceful speeches. His music, as usual, was practically all by himself (with heavy contributions in orchestration and improvising from the boys). It was incandescent, original jazz, sometimes ebullient, sometimes languid, the product...
Into the Army in Manhattan went Prince Gaëtan de Bourbon-Parme, 37-year-old brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, week after the induction of his nephews (Archdukes) Felix and Charles Ludwig. The nephews will probably wind up in the much-criticized battalion of Austrian nationals promoted by brother Pretender Otto, but Uncle Gaëtan, a descendant of Louis XIV, is a French citizen and ineligible...
Brown Shoes for Morning. Such was Lowell's position that, though he barbarically wore tan shoes with his morning clothes, Boston's tailors voted him the city's best-dressed man. He prowled about expanding Harvard as if it was his own back yard, leaping into sewer ditches to discover fragments of antique Harvard chinaware, laying out new Yard walks with a bundle of stakes and twine. He inherited a large fortune and fattened it judiciously (except when he lost $194,412 in Kreuger & Toll). He endowed (with some $1,000,000) the Harvard Society of Fellows...
...could not twist into something nasty. It got into war work ten months ago when the elastic shortage mildly upset peacetime business and the Medical Corps was hunting for someone to make quantities of tourniquets, straps, tapes, etc. Then it picked up orders for 60,000 WAAC girdles (flesh-tan, 280 sq. in. of elastic, four 2½-in. garters), some 50,000 Army flare parachutes to boot...