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...dreamy moments when the Maid listens to her Voices, in the pathetic moments when she becomes terrified of the stake, in the radiant moments when she returns from beyond the grave to find she has become a legend and a saint, Luise Rainer was all innocent girlhood. But she could not spring to life as the other Joan -the fierce and fiery spirit, the obdurate deliverer of her people. Her voice rose, her eyes flashed, her little fists clenched to no avail: the effect was stagy and elocutionary...
Anastasie, the puritanical, tight-lipped old maid who symbolizes censorship to Frenchmen (TIME, Dec. 4), fought for her life last week as protests against her were made in the Chamber of Deputies. Socialist Leader Leon Blum made the strongest accusations, terming what Anastasie had done as "absolute incompetence" and "ridiculous ignorance." Then he produced statistics to show her devastating effect on French publicity abroad: "Out of every 100 lines of information published by U. S. newspapers France obtains five, Germany...
Staid, stolid Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., posed in Manhattan, gun in hand, with noted Finnish Runners Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maid, to symbolize the start of a new drive (see cut}. The former President welcomed the athletes as "ambassadors of the greatest sporting nation in the world," alluded rhapsodically but tactlessly to Thermopylae (where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans put up a stout fight against the Persian hordes, were massacred to a man). "Flying Finn" Nurmi, once world's champion distance runner, and his protege Maki, breaker of track records, including Nurmi...
...have individual listings and numbers in the phone books. Friends acquainted with the phoneman's habits can, by calling Caro, Mich., 583, catch him in Bathroom No. 3. A request for 584 will connect the caller with the Southwest Bedroom; 592 with the Furnace Room; 597 with the Maid's Quarters, and 590 with both ends of the Dining-Room Table. Despite this room-to-room hookup, there is a flaw in the service. If Mr. Moore were in his Den (589) and a friend called him in the Front Upper Hall (593), he would likely...
...Saturday morning in May 1933, two young men pushed their way past the maid into the home of H. F. McElroy, Kansas City city manager and "front" for the Pendergast machine, and rushed upstairs. McElroy's daughter, Mary, was taking a bath. They shouted for her to get dressed and come out, or they would shoot through the door. Terrified, Mary obeyed. They seized her, bundled her downstairs and into...