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...what many Britons hoped was a slap at Adolf Hitler their rulers performed two exceptional acts last week in quick succession: 1) Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare waived formalities, turned into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...
...candidate was 70-year-old, deaf, withered Charles Maurras, expert on Provengal dialect, author of innumerable, little-read novels, poems, philosophical and political studies. Maurras' election precipitated a scandal, not because he was a worse writer than several other "immortals," but because his election marks the most stinging slap in the face that the Republic has yet taken from French Royalists. Royalists dominate the Academy, but Maurras' Royalism is in a class by itself-it goes back further and is more venomous than that of all the others combined. In the Royalist newspaper, Action Française, which...
Meanwhile, Philadelphia's Caricaturist Louis Hirshman happened to issue a biting caricature of Miss Littlefield. Outraged Ballerina Littlefield marched fuming to Philadelphia's Artists' Union to see the caricature, tore it in half (see cut) and (according to press reports) slapped Caricaturist Hirshman. Later Miss Littlefield denied the slap, called it just a push. "My impulse," she continued, "is never to hit. I incline to the tearing of limb from limb...
...blow made premature world headlines as a "slap in the face," but it was a box on the ear, and internal bleeding began between the layers of the left eardrum. A blood clot formed, which caused the eardrum to burst, and at latest reports Commander Bower was said by the doctors to be in a "serious condition...
...Pres, Julie wears red to the Mardi Gras' Olympus Ball, where unmarried girls traditionally wear white. To chastise Julie, Pres dances her feet off while proper and white-frocked New Orleans belles primly withdraw to the sidelines. That night Julie's good night to Pres is a slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie is confident he will come back. A year later he does return, with a Northern bride (Margaret Lindsay). With every vixenish wile...