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...main White bombardment opened at 8 a. m., shells dropped into the office of Brown Boveri Co., scaring the charwoman who was awaiting the arrival of the staff. Other shells plunked into the famed Oriental Café in the Puerta del Sol, heart of Madrid. The Ministry of Interior, police headquarters and the French Embassy were all barely missed by screaming shells, but a small one landed in the onetime Royal Palace of Alfonso XIII, now the Palace of the President. Don Manuel Azaña, who fled last month not to Valencia but to Barcelona (TIME...
...weekly newspapers began last month pounding away at the so-called "New Deal Cabinet" of Socialist Premier Léon Blum. Over and over they hurled charges of which the most effective was the weekly Gringoire's incessant repetition that during the War the present Minister of the Interior, Roger Salengro, deserted from the front-line trenches and rode off into Germany on a bicycle...
...butt of jokesters in Paris music halls who kept referring to "Cyclist Salengro" until members of the Blum Cabinet would have liked to scream. They appointed a "Jury of Honor" under General Marie Gustave Gamelin. Chief of the French General Staff, and this last fortnight whitewashed the Minister of Interior by discovering extenuating circumstances, but he is likely to be called "Cyclist Salengro" to his dying day. Indignant, Premier Blum was resolved to punish the man he blamed for organizing the anti-Blum newspaper bloc, M. Pierre Guimier, a director in Paris of the Agence Havas, chief French wire service...
...poly Bob Hope (Roberta} is coyly engaging as the young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior decorator, sings a song called "A Little Skipper from Heaven Above," in which he experiences frightful difficulty making his accompanying octet let him take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made a slight nick in Durante's notorious rhetorical self-assurance. At one point...
Married. Lois Walters, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Augustus Walters; and Robert Coker, stepson of the daughter of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; in Washington...