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Rote. Last week the State Department (and, presumably, the diplomats most concerned) were caught with their heads in their diplomatic pouches. For a week the Department had expected a Nazi grab at Denmark and Norway-b,ut not before May 1. The night Hitler jumped the gun, Norway's...
On to Jefferson City, where Roman-nosed Governor Lloyd Crow Stark greeted him; to Fulton for a talk at Westminster College, answered questions until midnight, then a 65-mile drive to Macon. Mo. (cold turkey, ham, salad), chatted until 3 a.m. with a dozen politicians.
At the same time, up came the schedule man from obscurity. A reporter from the Boston Herald nosed out shy Mr. Schwener in his home in suburban Jamaica Plain after 25 years of anonymity.
Like the Bryans, Publisher Slover had other interests-real estate, banks, the Norfolk & Western Railway, the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach. But Richmond was far afield. For a time the Times-Dispatch did not do so well as the News Leader, but in recent years, under Mark Foster Ethridge (now...
The plot drones on about a houseful of servants who try to rehabilitate their bankrupt master by palming off a pretty scullery maid as a debutante, hoping she will bag a millionaire. The stage swarms with snooty butlers, comic valets, tripping parlormaids, hoity-toity housekeepers, red-nosed cooks. Higher and...