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...Moscow. Even testy old Admiral von Levetzow, hard-boiled Nazi chief of Berlin police, beamed and bubbled with good humor last week. He decreed that Stresemannstrasse, named after Germany's late, great Nobel Peace Prize winning Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), should be renamed Saarlandestrasse. Since beauteous Widow Stresemann, once the "Queen Kathe" of swank Berlin night clubs, happens to be a Jewess, Admiral von Levetzow was congratulated last week on having winged two birds with one pellet...
...filled to bursting. All correspondents were shut out. Everyone inside was sworn to utter secrecy. An hour and a half later the Opera disgorged. That night it filled again with the same secrecy-sworn galaxy of leaders. They heard Tannhauser sung. To perform by special command of Der Reichsjilhrer, beauteous Prima Dona Maria Mueller, half German and half Czech, had been all but jerked off the boat on, which she was about to sail to Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...Marshall innovations were trivial. He persuaded fashionable young matrons of the capital to work for the Times. Betsy Caswell, widow of the Shenandoah's Commander Lansdowne, did the cooking page; beauteous Mrs. Grace Hendrick Eustis reported politics; plump Nina Carter Tabb covered the hunts of the swank Middleburg and Warrentown set. Hugely successful, their columns helped budge the Times' circulation up to 106,800, only 6,300 less than the venerable Washington Star...
...suppressed speech Dr. Maniu in tended to say further that he had counted, as Premier, upon a reconciliation between King Carol and the wife he abandoned for jolly Wench Lupescu, beauteous Queen Helen, the cousin of the Duchess of Kent. "It was our purpose after this reconciliation had been effected," Dr. Maniu would have said if he could, "to proceed to the joint coronation of Their Majesties...
Benton, in his murals and easel paintings, earnestly and almost ferociously strives to record a contemporary history of the U. S. A short wiry man with an unruly crop of black hair, he lives with his beauteous Italian wife and one small son in a picture-cluttered downtown Manhattan flat. To critics who have complained that his murals were loud and disturbing. Artist Benton answers: "They represent the U. S. which is also loud and not 'in good taste.' " "I have not found," he explains, "the U. S. a standardized mortuary and consequently have no sympathy with that school...