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...upstairs. In the house nearby Senator Schall, with wife and daughter, awoke, sat tight. The lodge burned almost flat. Aboard the cruiser Australia, twice called off her course by the distressed Schooner Seth Parker (TIME, Feb. 18), the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V, steamed toward Jamaica (via Panama) a week behind his itinerary. Promptly on schedule, his younger brother and new sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, flew into Jamaica from Haiti, settled down to wait for tardy Gloucester...
Having finally eased one's self out of the Hotel via the inimitable revolving doors, ride up Connecticut Avenue to Restaurant Pierre's on the second floor of a "cute little building." Here one may partake of hors d'oeuvre, sip an Old-Fashioned, feel embarrassed when a mannikin displaying her wares is taken for somebody else displaying her wares. Feel provincial, as one listens to a sparkling conversation in French between two First Secretaries of embassies--or perhaps "they're only military attaches." Point out to your friend that "that new stylists hats looks like George Washington...
...trade is Manhattan's Fur Trade Boycott Committee. Last week its secretary sent out a proud circular letter to members: "Gentlemen: Looking back at our efforts since the formation of the Fur Trade Boycott Committee in 1933. we are proud to say that importation of furs from and via Germany has almost ceased. . . . Some day the Fur Trade will have reason to be proud of the part it has played in the great, historical battle for the preservation of human rights. . . . Leo Weinschenker...
...have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave them, somebody else paid for them. After the crash, she returned to Manhattan via Hollywood, to cash in on her amazing reputation. Last week she had a job organizing the floor show of a Manhattan night club. Same day as the dream party, she organized a publicity stunt for the night club out of the latest fad of European socialites: levitation...
Because the Swiss for a long time have been professional neutrals, innkeepers, paid hosts to congresses of tourists, invalids and impotent statesmen, a literary tradition has sprung up that they are a race of small-minded, closefisted, petty burghers, slightly comic but mostly dull." In Via Mala Swiss Author John Knittel goes a long way toward exploding this commercialized tradition, shows that the Swiss, like other people, are human, passionate, beleaguered by all the human vices and virtues. A humane melodrama. Via Mala is written on the socially dangerous and apparently un-Swiss-like theme that...