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...legal fight to extend them to Latin America. The agreement let Sterling make Farben products and sell them in Latin America, but only on commission (25%). Sterling processed these drugs (usually from German raw materials), had $10,000,000 worth of plant in Latin America, but the drugs bore Farben's names. The agreements, until last week, still had 30-35 years...
...Deal? In the last few months, as Marshal Pétain has edged steadily closer to the Axis, Gaston Henry-Haye has taken the place once occupied by Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky among the diplomatic outcasts of Washington. Oumansky, though diplomatically shunned for two years, was nevertheless personally popular, bore up well. Henry-Haye, natu rally affable, is desolately lonely-next to Germany's handsome Chargé d'Affaires, Dr. Hans Thomsen, is probably the loneliest man in boom-packed Washington...
Actor Kaufman, complete with spectacles, a wispy beard and a wicked musache, bore down on the part of Sheridan Whiteside, the famed lecturer who goes to a dull dinner party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks. Looking unaccountably Machiavellian, not at all like Alexander Woollcott, about whom the part was written, Playwright Kaufman was quite professional. So was high-domed Actor Hart, who, as Beverly Carlton, a caricature of Noel Coward, looked like any U.S. traveling salesman...
Correspondent Casey has seen this war in all its peculiar phases and helped mightily in making the News foreign coverage the best in the U.S. During the days of the Bore War he waddled in a taxicab through the Siegfried Line, spent many a pleasant afternoon on a terrace in Luxemburg dreaming up antics for a French flier he referred to as "Albert le Screwball." He fled before the Nazis in France, was in London during the worst bombardments. The wheeze of his laughter was never stilled whether he was jaunting in Ireland, following the British in North Africa...
...turns been a businessman, newspaperman, explorer, and scholar at Johns Hopkins. For years he lived in the desert in native yurts, native fashion. Last week, with Russia at war and Japan eying inner Asia acquisitively, Mr. Lattimore's appointment and the help he will direct bore new significance...