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...remember that Calvin Coolidge, of all people, once wanted him as Secretary of Labor in his Cabinet. Last week, out of hundreds of columns and editorials condemning Lewis' threat of a Third Party, only Columnists Ernest Lindley (Washington Post) and Ludwell Denny (Scripps-Howard) realized that Mr. Lewis was really talking about 1944, that he believes the politically disinherited U. S. groups must have some point to rally...
...Manhattan it is the circus, not the crocus, which announces that spring has come. Punctually last week, the great Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey troupe took over Madison Square Garden with fanfare. In addition, there was a not unusual threat of a strike, and, day before the circus opened, some fine frontpage jungle violence. Just before rehearsals, an Indian leopard killed the only performing snow leopard in captivity. He also cut up Trainer Alfred Court's face, and another cat got loose and scared the daylights out of a reporter. On top of all this, John Ringling North...
Scandinavia. When the first peace rumors ran from house to house in Stockholm, Swedish families and societies planned festivities. The Swedish Government was delighted to escape from its squeeze between the upper millstone of threatened Allied intervention and the nether-threat of German reprisal for permitting it. Norway and Denmark were likewise relieved. The Copenhagen Politiken, splashing the first news on yellow handbills which were joyfully snatched by gasping passersby, commented: "Happiness will be felt all over the North that the final outcome of suspense was a message of peace...
Sven Hedin had an attractive piece of goods to sell. Germany had everything to gain by peace: removal of the threat of a Northern Front, perhaps more help from a peaceful Russia, a resultant strengthening of prestige and power not only in the North as a peace broker, but in the Balkans, where the Allies are titular protectors as they were supposed to be in Scandinavia...
...last game for Captain Charley Lutz, and he turned in one of the greatest performances of his three year career. Closely guarded though he was as the greatest Crimson threat, he scored 11 points besides giving a sparkling display of floor play...