Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the prayer, Franklin Roosevelt looked rapt in thought, but during the hymns (O God, Our Help in Ages Past and A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) his fine baritone could be heard clear and confident above the male choir. From church he went to the Capitol to address the joint birthday session of Congress...
...comes to the estate. Franklin D. Roosevelt was once "compromised" there. During the War, when the estate was a military hospital, he came out and helped mow Cliveden's lawn. Since Bolshevists Leonid Krassin (died, 1926) and Gregory Sokolnikov (since "purged") were once entertained at Cliveden, Lady Astor thought Kremlin Set might be a more apt title for those she entertained. Other Cliveden Set members: Charles Chaplin, Will Rogers, Emma Goldman, Herbert Hoover, James Ramsay MacDonald, numerous Rhodes scholars...
When Andre François-Poncet, former French Ambassador to Germany and now to Italy, went to the Bavarian Alps last October to take leave of Führer Adolf Hitler, he thought he was expected at the familiar Berghof, the Führer's well-known mountain chalet near Berchtesgaden. Not far from the Berghof, however, the driver took a different road, the car began to ascend a highway winding five miles up a steep mountain. Soon the highway became a mere shelf on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the road ended before two big bronze doors...
...immediately packed her off to a ward, ordered a big meal from the hospital kitchen while he questioned Mrs. Barber. He found that although she had eaten enough in the past year to feed a family of ten, she had lost 25 pounds. After a preliminary examination Dr. Simpson thought that Mrs. Barber's pancreas might be functioning abnormally, that it might be burning up too much sugar in her blood and somehow causing an excessive flow of digestive juices, which sharpened her appetite...
President of the Institute is Nathaniel Saltonstall, first cousin of Massachusetts' new Governor. Director is a young (27), bespectacled Harvardman ('33) who studied Fine Arts in college because he thought it was a snap course, wrote the music for a Hasty Pudding show, still likes playing tennis and skiing as much as working with pictures: James Sachs Plaut (rhymes with flout), who was assistant curator of paintings at the Fine Arts Museum before the Institute hired him last year. More young Bostonians went to his show last week than the Museum had seen for years...