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Poet and playwright, formerly identified with Rumania's very conservative Liberal Party, M. Tatarescu is known as a deadly foe of the pro-Nazi Iron Guards. At the war's outbreak, he was Rumanian Ambassador to France. King Carol considered him a Francophile, and so interested was the King in keeping Rumania neutral that he recalled the Ambassador for no other reason than that he was too much of an Allied partisan. His new appointment was accepted in France as good news, in Germany as bad; Rumania had at least entered the picket lines of the Allied camp...
...Laying the cornerstone of the $3,000,000 Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, he made a strong, simple speech, praising George Washington as "a great moderator in bringing together discordant elements in the formation of a constitutional nation"; praising Lincoln as "counsel for the underprivileged . . . foe of malice, teacher of good will"; praising Jefferson for his political philosophy and for his belief "that the average opinion of mankind is in the long run superior to the dictates of the self-chosen." But he also said, "I hope that by January 1941 I shall be able to come to the dedication...
None enjoyed this jest better than ponderous, granitic Roman Catholic Pierce Butler. The man who died alone in Washington's Garfield Memorial Hospital last week was as solid as arctic ice, but a friend to his friends, an honest foe to his foes, a tender father to his incurably ill daughter Margaret. Legends accumulated around softer men, not around Pierce Butler-except about his enthusiastic, notorious golf (he never broke 110), which he endured with almost masochistic resignation...
Queerest-looking of the lot was Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens, one of Georgia's most brilliant lawyers, an admirer of Lincoln and Davis' bitterest foe. Weighing around 90 Ibs., hollow-chested, skeleton-faced, he was so tiny that a fellow-traveler once said to him: "Sonny, get up and give your seat to the gentleman." He read the Anatomy of Melancholy for his violent fits of blues, once cried out: "What have I not suffered from a look!" His good pal was hulking, roundheaded, roaring, witty, Rabelaisian Secretary of State Robert Toombs, great orator and charmer...
...held their second football rally in fourteen years. They did it because they wanted to show their faith in their team and its coaches, because they were sure that Harvard had a team with enough ability and spirit to put up a good battle against even so favored a foe as Princeton. This faith has been fulfilled, for Saturday's game was a closely-fought contest, with both teams showing a heads-up brand of play. The team and coaches showed not only that they can rise above criticism, but that they can justify the confidence of their college-mates...