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Invective. Between such bits the Prime Minister tucked in not only an account of U.S. relations with Japan and what he and the President meant by their eight points, but for sheer joy of it he tore Hitler to pieces...
When the "Tree of Hope" (supposed to provide an immediate job for any actor who touched it) was knocked down on a Harlem street corner where it grew, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson joined the frantic crowd that tore it to splinters; trying to save it, he salvaged two chunky hunks. / / Dated to sing this week at a ball at wealthy Mrs. Herbert Shipman's plushy villa in Newport is her new neighbor, Gertrude Niesen, chatelaine of the Oelrichs mansion. / / Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 24 and twice a father, won his appeal to Washington for draft deferment as a family...
...Indo-China Governor General Georges Catroux took too long to make up his mind. By the time Catroux had decided to join De Gaulle, Vichy had replaced him with Admiral Jean Decoux, who last week handed the colony over to Japan (see p. 27). General Catroux hurried to London, tore three of the five stars from his sleeve and reported to De Gaulle (who wears only two stars). It was General Catroux who received De Gaulle's congratulations as the conqueror of Syria last week...
...R.A.F. flew over Europe in V-formation-and it was so noted in official communiqués. In Belgium the Flemish composer R. A. F. Verhulst became a national celebrity when posters advertising the performance of one of his operas featured his four initials. (The Germans caught on and tore the posters down...
...tried to turn the Bruxellois against him by imposing a fine of 5,000,000 francs on the city. It only increased the Burgomaster's popularity. François van de Meulebroeck is 64. The Nazis decreed that no burgomaster could be more than 60, arrested him. They tore down posters of his proclamation of protest. In the spirit of his predecessor, the Bruxellois pasted them up again. Last week the two Belgian fliers who escaped to England (see p. 17) brought a copy of the proclamation with them...