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Crape-draped, a German special train was sent to the Swiss frontier last week. From the trim little railway station a plain coffin was carried by big-boned Nazis and heaved aboard. Surviving relatives of the corpse were ushered ceremoniously into the train, and with them rode a Guard of Honor as the special set out for their family home in Schwerin. At all large stations the funeral car stopped opposite a band and local Nazis sang the Horst...
...would make his way to the podium without attracting notice, Arturo Toscanini hurried on to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall stage last week to begin his eleventh season as conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony. One glimpse of the trim, greying little Italian and every player in the orchestra, every member of the audience, rose respectfully. After one grave little bow Toscanini turned his back, rapped sharply for attention, commanded his men to play, his audience to listen...
After the War, Teetor went back to Hagerstown to rejoin the company founded by his uncle in 1900, in which young Ralph had balanced crankshafts after college. He married a small, trim schoolteacher named Nellie Van Antwerp. They now have a 5-year-old daughter...
When he commanded U. S. naval forces in Turkish waters after the War, trim, erect Admiral Hepburn was as beloved in the Armenian compound at Smyrna as the image of President Wilson. When the Turks burned Smyrna he evacuated thousands of refugees. At three disarmament conferences in London and Geneva, his willingness to compromise was such that salty colleagues honored him and Admiral William Veazie Pratt with an accusation of "selling the navy out to the British." Equally criticized for his stand in the battle of mobile 6-inch v. heavy 8-inch guns, Admiral Hepburn swept his mobile Black...
Britain's foremost armament firms, Vickers Ltd. and Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., sent their joint Board Chairman, sleek, tall General Sir Herbert A. Lawrence. once Chief of Staff of the B. E. F. in France, and their bland, trim, assured General Manager Sir Charles Craven, famed in Mayfair for his mannerism of "talking down to the ruling class." The Chairman of the Royal Commission asked if in Vickers' experience bribery is necessary to obtain armament orders outside of Britain...