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...Eliot, longtime (1900-27) president of the American Unitarian Association, minister since 1927 of Arlington Street Church in Boston. In re-signing his place Dr. Eliot gave a chance not to the next generation but to a 26-year-old in the generation after that, whom he called "an alert, able and beloved young minister, endowed with exceptional gifts of mind and heart and with the best possible background and training." This exceptional young man: Rev. Dana McLean Greeley...
...depended on the good will of the Powers, proceeded to play the future that way. He broke with previous Greek policy by joining the Balkan League of Bulgaria and Serbia and ganging on Turkey in the first Balkan War. This time Greece won. In the squabble over the spoils, alert Venizelos formed another alliance with Serbia and ganged on Bulgaria. Spoils: most of Macedonia and the Aegean Islands, the most productive lands in the realm and 100% more people...
...Sothern, as the music-hall comedian's jealous mistress: slant-eyed Merle Oberon as the financier's mischievous wife. If the suspense of wondering whether the financier knows whether his wife knows who was making love to her in her boudoir fails to keep the audience alert, this is also an advantage: it makes the more welcome those interruptions in which Chevalier, as gay and ingratiating as usual, goes into his songs. Good bets for radio include: "Rhythm of the Rain," "I Was Lucky," "Singing a Happy Song...
...Farmers Celebrate." To alert newsfolk the difference between what correspondents cable from Moscow and what they say off-the-record when out of Russia constitutes a piquant paradox. In the autumn of 1933 famed Walter Duranty, quizzed by his New York Times superiors in Manhattan, related grim facts. Previously, Mr. Duranty had cabled merely that he thought figures showing the death rate in the Ukraine to have tripled were "too low." Last week honest Walter Duranty got off this normal Moscow dispatch: "The definite and striking success of the collective farm movement has been demonstrated at the second congress...
Elihu Root spends the winter months in Manhattan, the rest in Clinton, N. Y. opposite his beloved Hamilton College where, as "Cube" Root, son of the mathematics professor, he was the youngest and smartest member of his class (1864). Alert, he reads widely, keeps abreast of current affairs. But what he thinks, he keeps almost wholly for those of his "young" intimates who are still alive...