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...used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother-a sensible...
Last week the House debated colonial policy. Laborite Creech A. Jones rose to utter these labored words: "Much as it might be right that Britain should not and could not transfer her administrative responsibility to an international syndicate, it was imperative we should give evidence that we welcomed third-party interest and third-party judgment and the fullest cooperation in the colonial field." To that, Liberal James Armand de Rothschild snapped: "We are not fighting against the thralldom of the Central European powers to submit after the war to any tyranny on the part of Pan American Airways...
...year ago, on the German Heroes' Memorial Day (March 15), Adolf Hitler told his people: "The Bolshevik hordes, which could not be defeated this winter by the German soldiers . . . will in the coming summer be crushed to utter destruction." Last week, Heroes' Memorial Day was postponed without explanation...
...President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered yet another Saroyan precedent, refused to utter a word for publication...
...Russian broadcast denounced President Ryti's re-election as "illegal" and an attempt to bring the Finnish people "to Utter ruin in the interest of Hitler." There was no solace for the Finns in such a stiff Russian attitude but experience has shown that Russian realism might be counted on to realize the military and propaganda values of a Finnish defection from the war. At the same time the Finns could not take solace from the fact that Germany has 100,000 troops in Finland...