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...Richmond, Va. occupies a mansion where President James Monroe once lived. Still nourishing is a grapevine which Monroe imported from France and planted himself. Dr. Beverley Randolph Tucker, Richmond's leading neurologist, is a descendant of several First Families of Virginia. He took over the property in 1915. Thither, four years ago, was carried a strange patient, a delicate, wistful-eyed old Richmond lady who would not grow old. Her body, dressed as a little girl, was 61 years of age. Her mind and behavior were not more than seven...
...great 1937 automobile labor war broke down when the United Automobile Workers failed to evacuate its sit-down strikers from two General Motors plants in Flint (TIME, Jan. 25). The fighting in Michigan having bogged down into trench warfare, the active front shifted last week to Washington. Thither went Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, as he had planned to go anyhow to attend Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural. Thither went General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen, thither Homer Martin, president of the striking union. In Washington all these could confer...
...Chicago concert, program notes had it that he left Russia with the Soviet Government's per- mission "in consequence of the general confusion." In any case, Russian Prokofieff now maintains an apartment in Moscow, where his sons Sviatoslav, 12, and Eleg, 7, are being brought up. Thither last week he had a new Ford shipped...
...much bigger civil war than has raged in China for some years. The famed "Christian Marshal," Feng Yu-hsiang, who ranks as China's most benevolent and adroit double-crosser, could hardly wait to get in on whatever was taking place at Sian. "I will fly thither at once," roared the Christian Marshal, "and offer myself as a hostage to the Young Marshal for the safety of the Generalissimo...
They retreated gradually inland and have been pursued by the Dictator's forces hither and thither for approximately 2,000 miles through seven provinces ending with Kansu where they now are, still unconquered. In many of these provinces the original local Chinese authorities were more or less at outs with Dictator Chiang, but, after they had been attacked by the Red armies and either badly frightened or overcome, they greeted the arrival of the Generalissimo's troops with unwonted enthusiasm...