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...with pride and conjugal affection, brash little Broadwayman Billy Rose proclaimed that, his New York World's Fair Aquacade ended, its vivid, dark-eyed queen, Eleanor Holm Jarrett Rose, would "retire and run our home." Trilled Aquabelle Eleanor: "I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed I woke up and my maid said, 'Your bath is ready. And I just laughed and told her, 'I'm never going to get in the water again...
...Willkie family, under Herman Willkie, lawyer, book lover, Prussian-hater, had grown up in an atmosphere of argument that began when Father Willkie woke the boys with a bellowed quotation (a favorite of Lincoln's): "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" and lasted until the evening hour, when he would read to them from one of the 6,700 books that lined the spreading, maple-shaded house...
Carl J. Hambro is President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). At one o'clock in the morning of April 9, his wife woke him up. There was an air-raid alarm. The Nazis had come. President Hambro (now in the U. S.) writes a simple, straightforward, courageous account of the fight of a small neutral (Norway had no standing army) for survival, of heroic defense by civilian reservists against tanks, of the Norwegian air force (115 planes) against the Nazi air armada. He describes defenseless villages bombed out of existence, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav machine-gunned from...
...Harry Tammen woke up to the fact that his old friend and patron had fallen on hard times, gave Lyulph Ogilvy a job. The Post (now fairly sedate) was a bold, rowdy, unscrupulous journal when Ogilvy joined its staff in 1909. When Tammen asked what his first name was, Ogilvy answered, "Lyulph." Said Tammen: "That's a hell of a name. We'll call you Lord Ogilvy...
...other kind of education that will come through living in a community where, at last, all must take their share in work and courage for a common end. In the meantime two are still at school in the South; one, just 14, writes from her school: "T. woke me up, shaking and calling in my ear, the beastly sirens were going full blast and they make a vile, almost tangible din. I really was very scared, you see I was half asleep and the flashing torches, the general din and semi-panic was rather horrible. And of course I couldn...