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...away, Velvet won him and acquired the start of her stable. And when the old gentleman committed suicide, leaving all his horses to her because she was the last person he saw, Velvet knew that her star was due to rise. How it rose, and to what heights, Au thor Bagnold should be left alone to tell. The Author. Many a Manhattan playgoer remembers the delightfully improbable Serena Blandish (1929) ; it was taken from the novel of the same name written (but not acknowledged) by Enid Bagnold. Author of only four acknowledged books (a war diary, poems, a child...
...Religion of the State. At every turn, if it is true to itself, it will clash directly with autocrat and mobbism, with the worship of fore and the submission to irrationality. If Hitler survives, Protestantism will not. Whether or not a throwback to the myth of Wodin and Thor will succeed is a other matter; but even if these gods do not survive in name, their crude unreasoning spirit will. CASTOR...
...measurable fry. The personnel of a large university, so long as they do not work explicitly, may retard the cause of social revolution with great efficiency, just as those who are successfull in the present order may retard it. But when they open their mouths to play Thor, there is nothing but a vacancy better left concealed...
...Catholic Storm Troop; Windhorst League; Flock of the Cross; Peoples Union of Catholic Germany and Catholic Young Men's Association. With religious frenzy mounting, half-naked Nazis appeared in Berlin wearing strips of animal skins and ancient Teutonic horned caps. Loudly touting a return to the worship of Thor and Wodan they celebrated in a Berlin stadium the "Festival of the Swastika" (Nazi symbol), seemed to consider their acts religious. Sunday found banners with the pagan swastika or Hakenkreuz ("hooked cross") stuck up beside the cross of Christ in a majority of Berlin churches, though not in the provinces...
Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Englewood, N. J. friends of the Lindberghs reported that their new Scotch terrier Thor, when commanded: "Go take the little dog for a walk." seizes the leash of Skene, the other Lindbergh Scottie, marches it proudly around the estate. Into the new beauty parlor she was opening on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Hocked the friends of Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy* for a housewarming. Tall, plump, blonde, Proprietress Christy was the famed illustrator's chief model for eight years before she became his second wife. Rumania's King...