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...daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money in a bank in Brussels. The Germans occupied Belgium. I had my house and belongings in Nice. The Germans have occupied France. All is gone. . . . I am stunned and yet I am surprised at the ease with which I accept all this...
...Named for Lewis Miller, one of Chautauqua's founders, and donated by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. She presided last week at the opening meeting of Chautauqua's Bird & Tree Club...
...University. Like his running mate, he was a lawyer. He began his political career in 1906 as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1917 he went to the Senate. Still a farmer at heart, whenever he can leave Washington he makes tracks for Salem, Ore., where he owns a farm, bird sanctuary, an experimental laboratory, in which he developed the world's largest prune, the Imperial. Nuts are also a hobby, especially filberts...
...Gandhi, has exhorted all local Congress committees to try to "arm the people for self-defense"-meaning possible revolt. Somehow or other the Viceroy and the white Britons he conscripted last week must manage to remain top dogs in India. This is going to be harder work than the bird-shooting, garden-partying and ceremony-going the able Scotsman has been doing at the Empire's poshest post for the past four years...
...Walkers were willing to concede that a wild bird might be a little stronger than Caesar-but not much. Caesar is husky. Conclusions: 1) probably no eagle has ever carried off a child of any age; 2) certainly no eagle has ever carried off a child old enough to get about by itself...