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Stories of the brutality with which he has been accused of receiving German delegates to the Armistice, Marshal Foch did not trouble to deny or defend. Metic- ulously he described the details of that fateful meeting on a railway siding in the forest of Compiegne?in the third person. The last ten years of the Marshal's life, he dismissed in one sentence, the last in the book...
...calibre of William B. Leeds. The Graf's transatlantic fare last year was $2.000 to Spain, $2,250 to Germany. Last week Hamburg-American line, agent for Liftschiffbau Zeppelin announced "Zep rides for everybody" for next summer. Four-hour flights from Friedrichshafen over either Lake Lucerne, the Black Forest or the Tyrol will cost about $36 per passenger, provided 30 to 35 passengers participate. Longer, costlier flights are also scheduled...
...show industry in Chicago. Sidney Strotz, the tail, lean, hard-chinned younger son of a North Shore socialite family, has been successful in a variety of businesses (wrapping-machinery, Korn King products, auto supplies) since leaving Cornell in 1919. Like most of his friends he lives in fashionable Lake Forest. One of his friends who did not live in Lake Forest was the late Patrick T. ("Paddy") Harmon, proprietor of "Dreamland" (dance pavilion) and promoter of bicycle races who was killed in a motor accident last July. For years...
...again to be outsmarted by the Easterners. If their circus battle with John Ringling in Chicago goes over, they may carry that fight to other cities, may send a circus through the land some of the proceeds from which will find their way back to the lawns of Lake Forest...
...Life is then all confused and hungry and bitter and terrifying. Siedoi travels hither and yon-"His Excellency the Inspector of Railroads" he comes to be known as- until one day Fedka, who has withdrawn from the topsy-turvy People's world to live and hunt in the forest with Katok, finds his old friend Siedoi lying under a bush, staring at the morning sun with unwinking eyes, gladly dying. Thus ends one of the most articulate books of Russia, of human and other natures, yet written in the Tolstoi vein...