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...swirled across Europe: Hitler was in the latter phases of paranoia. He had been seriously injured in last summer's bomb plot. He had been partially paralyzed by an apoplectic stroke. He had undergone a throat operation. He was under the care of four doctors, including a brain specialist. On his physician's advice, he had retired to Berchtesgaden. He had been deposed by Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler. He was simply keeping out of sight so as not to associate himself in the minds of Germans with the days of defeat. He was dead...
...radical novelist, wrote one book (published in Switzerland as Les Noyers de l'Altembourg), lived with the Maquis and F.F.I., became a colonel. Wounded, captured, liberated in time's nick during the invasion, thin, nervy Malraux is now fighting at the front. ¶ Jean Cocteau, famed Surrealist specialist in films and plays, had trouble when collaborationists released rats and tear gas in the theater where one of his plays was put on; they also punched his nose when he refused to salute a pro-German parade...
Last week a New York State Department of Education official paid a professional call on Vice Dean Manus. As a consulting specialist, he brought along one of Mayor Fiorello ("Butch") LaGuardia's plain-clothes men. "Dr." Manus, whose scientific studies had not turned him against religion (his 4-D draft status is for ministers and divinity students), was held on $5,000 bail. The charges: 1) presiding over an unchartered college (whose West Coast mother institutions were non existent); 2) calling himself a medical doctor; 3) calling his high-gear sheepskin tannery a school of medicine...
Stanley Wright and Dave Teeter were up state this weekend. They were going full guns with the sweet young things' chief specialist father, but even with the aid of their rank they couldn't get the car. So, on foot, they made the Coral Gables with mutterings about the effectiveness of discipline. No more flashing rank for these...
...Britain's Lord Privy Seal and specialist in postwar aviation, empire-loving Lord Beaverbrook now energetically pretends that he controls his world's-biggest London Daily Express (circ. more than 3,000,000) by telepathy only. But most Britons saw the Beaver's lusty individualism in a characteristically belligerent front-page editorial which appeared last week, headed "A Policy for the People," subtitled "The Policy of the Daily Express" The policy...