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TIME, Sept. 10, was evidently caught napping by that astute gentleman, Mr. Franklin Roudybush. . . . Mr. Angus MacDonald Crawford did not start to prepare candidates for the Foreign Service in 1907. Mr. Roudybush was never associated with him as a teacher, and it is very doubtful that "nearly 75 % of U. S. career diplomats" were students of Crawford, much less of Roudybush, as, up to 1919, the former had prepared only 20 candidates...
ROMAN SPRING: MEMOIRS?Mrs. Winthrop Chanler?Little, Brown ($3). Upper-crusty reminiscences by the sister of the late F. Marion Crawford...
...theory that a barbecue is adequate consolation for a shattered marriage indicates the intellectual plane of Chained. This does not prevent it from being an entertaining specimen of baloney cinema, replete with sex and high life. In it, Clark Gable wears a little mustache and Joan Crawford gives all she has to her performance as a lady. Most vulgar shot: Mike, Diane and their friend Johnnie (Stuart Erwin) unbuttoning their breeches after a large meal...
...take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three-story Georgetown mansion, was founded in an apartment in 1907 by the late Angus MacDonald Crawford with one student. Since then nearly 75% of U. S. career diplomats have "boned" for their examinations with Crawford or Roudybush...
Franklin Roudybush, 29, began teaching at "Crawford's" in 1927, took over the school when Founder Crawford died two years ago. Last year he decided to branch out with the New Deal. On the spot he studied Britain's Civil Service, and a London school which tutors for its examinations. Last week he announced that on Oct. 15 he would open a Washington School of Government Administration, chiefly for would-be public servants...