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...Moscow's Belorussku Station platform last week, a jolly crowd of ambassadors, ministers, diplomats bade an informal farewell to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who was leaving for his new post at Brussels. As the train pulled out. a messenger from the Kremlin rushed up to Mr. Davies, handed him a small flat parcel. Inside were autographed pictures of Joseph Stalin and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov...
...week he took on a new role. A few weeks earlier his latest musical show, Operette, had opened in London, got distinctly chilly reviews-which jangled Coward's nerves. Sympathetic as a family physician, the British Admiralty promptly sent him on an official visit to the Mediterranean fleet, bade him find out what British sailors like in the way of movies...
Last Sunday Dr. Guthrie bade St. Marks good-by with a tour of its grounds, which date from 1660, when Peter Stuyvesant worshipped there, later to be buried in the churchyard, in which Rector Guthrie still later kept a pair of peafowl. Two Sundays ago in his sermon Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to Bishop William Thomas Manning with whom he had often clashed-"with him came the bigness of head that goes with new office"-and to the Episcopal Church into which he was born: "I don't know any church I could stand as well...
Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, departing for six weeks in Hawaii, bade farewell to newshawks as follows: "All I can say is I am leaving my house in good order. My desk is cleared. ... Be as patient as I have been...
...Thistle, stepped out followed by Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in strawberry pink coats. Louis Stewart Gumley, Edinburgh's Lord Provost stepped forward, tendered the city's keys to King George on a red satin cushion, bade him welcome to his "ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland...