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...Uruguayan press conference for newshawks, Latin & U. S., each of whom had spent the day under the surveillance of an individually assigned detective. Before the President's departure, the able Montevideo police chief sent a delegation aboard to pay tribute at the coffin of dead U. S. Secret Servant Gus Gennerich. Then, still smiling, Franklin Roosevelt sailed for home, having had, as Santiago, Chile's El Mercurio declared, "The greatest apotheosis of his career...
...sets, Actor Laughton dominates Rembrandt, gives one of his finest performances at a dignified pace which well befits the life of his noble, if somewhat ribald, model. Best shot: Sonorous Painter Rembrandt rolling off a long, sensuous soliloquy defining Woman, while the mouths of stolid Dutchmen flap open and servant girls go glassy-eyed with dreams...
...Good Servant. Biggest delegation at the peace conference is that of the U. S. It includes, however, more supernumeraries than potent workers. It includes "The Honorable'' Alexander F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen so that labor will not feel left out; Adolf A. Berle Jr., former brain-truster, because he wanted to go and had earned the right as a friend of the New Deal; Hon. Elise F. Musser, State Senator from Utah because she had worked hard in the campaign; Michael F. Doyle, international lawyer from Philadelphia and Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, professor...
...over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops and a good-sized fleet were assembled to prevent an escape that was literally impossible. Napoleon would hide from his guards, dress his servant in his clothing, start a panic, then shake his head gleefully over the stupidity of the English. Such small victories tightened the restrictions around him. His last struggle was his five-year fight with short, redheaded, pompous, shifty-eyed Sir Hudson Lowe, which ended with Napoleon's death...
...Maharaja of Travancore like his "basket system." Tradition decrees that an Indian subject calling upon his ruler must present a gift and the Nizam of Hyderabad is notorious for extorting enormous sums by this means from his subjects. A subject of the Maharaja of Travancore is met by a servant with a basket containing gifts purchased by the Maharaja for "presentation" to himself. The subject chooses one of these gifts, enters, presents it, and the gift then goes back into the Maharaja's basket to be presented innumerable times to His Highness by subsequent happy subjects...