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...Harry Lloyd Hopkins ever becomes Iowa's favorite son, Iowa can thank his daughter. He announced last week that he would presently re-establish himself as a resident of Grinnell, la., which he left 27 years ago after graduating from the college there. A Hopkins from Iowa would be much more available politically in 1940 than a Hopkins from the District of Columbia or New York, but his friends swore that his stated reason for replanting his roots in corn country was the true one: to give his daughter Diana, aged 6, a permanent home, permanent friends...
...could say "thank God I am a Northerner." Instead, I merely state that it is indeed fortunate the educated Southern-American is not as narrow and intolerant as one Schwab. Apparently Washington has not buried all its intellectually dead-it lets them write letters...
Sweden's Government debated long over the proffered gift, then decided to thank the General just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...
...Stuart Friedkin '42 when informed of the official requirement exclaimed, "My God, we're being crucified. Thank Heavens it only costs $50 to change a course...
Much of Crisis is thus devoted to shots of urchins playing in summer camps, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria saying "Thank you" to Czech benefactors, orators addressing crowds. Nonetheless, pieced together with considerable skill and photographically first-rate, the picture is a reasonably coherent photographic appendix to last summer's headlines. Effective sequence: Czech soldiers lugging cannon up a mountainside for the defense that was never undertaken...