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Paul Revere adulated Adolf Hitler every night except Saturdays (DXP and DJB -11:30 E.D.S.T.), but so dully that a more fitting name for him might have been Lord Ho-Hum. Last week, celebrating his 52nd birthday ("the exact age of Hitler, the most successful man in the world"), he revealed himself as Chicago-born Douglas Chandler...
...first story it is cast up at the feet of a Welsh child named Hoöl. Under its influence Hoöl dreams of its fateful past and of his own future. He loses it to the sea, spends a life in Sweden in venery, musicianship, the service of a fiend. This section is straight fable, some of it exquisite, some of it embarrassing, from sober Julian Green, as a Hamlet trying to play Falstaff...
...third story, also in Arras, in the early 1900s, the powers of hell appear chiefly to be represented by a provincial middle-class family whose unexcited, excellent life resolves a millennium of frustrations beginning with Ho...
...Berlin by way of Moscow, preceded by Germany's Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott. On this trip Japan's part, if any, in the offensive will be settled. And so, perhaps, will the long-awaited Japanese-Russian non-aggression pact, which to Japan would mean Southward Ho...
...trying to force his way past the Taku forts on the Pei-ho River, British Admiral Hope was wounded, had his gunboats all but shot out of the water by the Chinese "rabble" and British prestige was seriously endangered...