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There was an international item for the deep thinkers: zoos in London and Moscow had agreed on a trade in snakes; and a social tidbit for the gossip column: a cow of Victoria, Australia, whose husband had lived in Bucks County, Pa. since 1939, gave birth to a calf. It was all legitimate, however. The father, Imperial Regal Heritage of the Jersey Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial...
...more popular than Bob Hope and Kate Smith; 65% of the men and 73% of the women who read the Minneapolis Star-Journal never miss his column, "In This Corner." They send him gifts, words of comfort when he is ill and many a hot news tip. One gossipy tidbit was almost too informative. In 1937 Cedric said: "A prominent labor leader . . . will be 'taken for a ride' within two weeks." Ten days later, a union official was murdered...
...tidbit level, the diary does better. Ciano says that Ribbentrop bet him a collection of antique arms against an Italian painting that Britain and France would not go to war if Germany invaded Poland. (Ribbentrop never paid up.) Ciano identifies Adolf Hitler's mistress during the summer of 1939 as one Sigrid von Lappus, and describes her as having "beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body...
...Motivations. The meeting was confidential, but, as usual, it leaked. During it, Secretary Hull, worn, harassed, irascible, complained at great length about his "damned detractors" of the press and radio. He let drop one tidbit of news: he had taken a plan for the future of Germany to Moscow, but it had been ruled off the conference agenda even though Eden and Litvinoff personally thought it was fine. But mostly old Mr. Hull harped on what are now clearly the two prime motivations of U.S. foreign policy...
Berg, his curve ball working to perfection and his change of pace a tantalizing tidbit, set the Guardsmen down with just three hits, no two of which came in the same inning. The first Boston safety came in the fifth inning...