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Trained in the old school of Tsaral diplomacy, M. Georg Tchitcherin, now Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union, represents a late and almost perfect flowering of the outworn cult of secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating...
...brave man, an honest man, and understanding and sympathetic man, and a man of the highest intellectual endowments. Self forgetful always, often absorbed and silent, a hard, steady thinker, he became, on appropriate occasion, the most vivacious and sparkling of companions. Sternness in him was wedded to geniality. Seldom, perhaps, has so uncompromising a moral and scholarly standard, a veracity so inflexible, been joined to such gentle considerateness for one's fellowmen...
...ethical for physicians to advertise except by a neat name- sign in the window of their residences. Seldom does one see in the public press such cards as: Dr. Lafcadio Schnapps...
...Stars Seldom Shine as Coaches...
...Seldom does the office go seeking a man, yet just at present the city of Cincinnati is seeking a man to rule its destinies. Cincinnati recently decided to adopt the city manager form of government. The members of the city council are looking for a city manager. One of them, Murray Seasongood, last week went to Washington to consult Federal officials-Andrew W. Mellon, Herbert C. Hoover, Dwight F. Davis. City managers are not so numerous as politicians...