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...President's own limousine rolled up to the White House portico and out stepped the stocky, silk-hatted figure of Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, first Soviet Ambassador to the U. S., first diplomat from Russia since Kerensky's representative departed in 1922. With his escort he waited in the Green Room for a moment until the President was ready to receive him in the Blue Room. In excellent English the Ambassador read: . . . The very fact of the cooperation and friendship between two such great and powerful nations as the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics must...
...Psychiatrist Carl Jung in Manhattan, followed him with her family to Zurich where she lived as his pupil and assistant for eight years. Returning to Chicago in 1921, she picked up a pudgy little Swiss architect, Edwin D. Krenn, brought him home as her social escort. Efforts to make a commercial success of the Krenn real estate firm in Chicago cost her most of her fortune. She died in a small apartment in the Drake Hotel in 1932 (TIME, Sept, 5, 1932) leaving five-twelfths of her estate to Escort Krenn...
...coat. In the course of their parley a crowd collects. The spirit of Verdun and the iniquity of the War debts are mentioned, and by the time they have reached the Vive la France! stage the mob has grown to such threatening proportions that gendarmes arrive and escort Jones to prison. There it is assumed that he is a spy. Soon the affaire Jones becomes the question of the day. Governments rise and fall on the issue. It looks bad for Jones. In melodramatic fashion he is spirited away from the jail, held incommunicado in a mysterious chateau. He escapes...
...Metropolitan Opera House in passing down one of the circular side staircases the exuberant "Princess Alice" just missed hitting me in the chin when she displayed the dreadful bracelet with his portrait as the War Lord, which Kaiser sent to that vivacious young lady. Miss Roosevelt said to her escort, "See what the Kaiser has sent...
When asked about repeal, the seductive star became wildly enthusiastic. "I think it's marvellous, wonderful, and what a time I had last night, even though they did throw my escort and me out of Cocoanut Grove. And I met one of your Harvard football players. Was he cute!--must have weighed 300 pounds, and real handsome. He said his name was Larry, and I sure would like to meet him again." Gypsy Lee said she liked her coffee black and her whiskey straight. Her favorite drink is a "Stinger." "It's the best drink in the world when...