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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) EW YORK.—It just happens • L ^ 1 that a specialist in bankruptcy law is the co-partner of General Trujillo of the Dominican Republic Specialist Shade, “e “1 Front Precision the European Into Fantasy refugees in their island haven under the Trujillo plan. But, this specialist, John N. Rosenberg, New York lawyer, has, since the World war„ been occupied with the large-scale human-race bankruptcy of war and famine in Europe, so he is entering no new field. 1 He is president of the Dominican Resettle ment association, which is co operating with General Trujillo in what appears to be an absolutely unique experiment in giving 500 refugees a new start in the western world, with houses, roads, land, cat tle and farm implements ready for them. Mr. Rosenberg has helped liquidate, and rebuild all sorts of financial and social wreckage, including Ivar Kreuger’s Inter- ' national Match company. He is the author of “Corporate Re organization and the Federal Courts/’ but he is also the author of another book called “Punchinello.’’ Fantasy, or at any rate, a play of the imagination, has occupied quite as much of his time as law and bankruptcy. He has painted hundreds of pictures, many of which are hung in good galleries, includ ing the Fogg museum of Harvard. He is an etcher, lithographer and playwright, and Broadway has pro duced his plays. For six years he was associated with Kenneth Mac- Gowan and Stark Young in backing the Provincetown theater. His short stories have appeared in many magazines. All this with time out to be counsel for the Irving Trust company. The foregoing might suggest • the activities of a trap-drum mer. But he is, instead, leisure ly and meditative, an easy going pipe-smoker who always seems to have a lot of time on his hands. Another of his books is “Pastel Expression.” He is busy in communal, civic and philanthropic enterprises and in the immediate post-war years was head of the American Joint Distribution Commission for Europe. This took him to Rus sia, and he wrote a book about that, too—“On the Steppes.” If there is to be a general European receivership—^financial and cul tural—he might as well take over. He is a natiVe of Al legheny, Pa., educated at Colum bia university. , T'HIS decade, it appears, will fea- ture flaming youth among col lege presidents. The recalcitrant and unorthodox, and comparatively * young, May- Young Educators na rdHutchins Score Outworn of Chicago College Methods ^ St. John’s college are shelling the academic ramparts in their drive against what they consider outworn educational technics. President James B. Conant of Harvard scores an assist in his observation that many college graduates can’t read and write fluents, and Dr. Mary Ellen Chase, of Smith, finds under graduates who don’t know their ABCs. She says they find it difficult to use the dictionary because they don’t know the alphabetical sequence of letters. Messrs. Hutchins and Barr would scrap much of the present school curriculum and start rubbing in the great books of the ages, in which they find strong support by MortimA: J. Adler, with his challenging new book, “How to Read a Book.” In 1937, Mr. Barr burned his bridges behind him, when he and young Scott Buchanan, dean of St. John’s, started their revolution. A native of Suffolk, Va., Mr. Barr at tended the University of Virginia, was a Rhodes scholar and pursued post-graduate studies in Paris and at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He was in the ambulance service jn the World war and taught at the Universities of Virginia and Chicago before becoming president of St, John’s. ^ I N THE earlier days of the Nazi movement, young Josef ’-Terbo- yen of Essen was up against stiff competition in intemperate lan- _ ,, , . guage, but he German Head in was gifted in Norway Tops in that line, was Invective^ Threat advanced rap- idly, and is now rewarded by the post of com missioner of German-held areas in Norway. For several years he headed the department of throwing a scare into small countries. He was governor of the Rhine Province. France’s Foreign Legion Aids British Troops A detachment of the French Foreign Legion from North Africa pictured marching through the streets of Marseilles, France. Troops of the famous “legion of forgotten men” were reported thrown into action in Norway during the third week of the war to help bolster the British after their defeat at Steinkjer. Legion troops are reported to have been in France since the 150th anniversary of French independence on July 14. Senate Chaplain Observes Double Anniversary Observing a double anniversary in Washington, 6. C., the Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips, chaplain of the senate, receives congratulations from high ranking members of congress. The observance marked his sixty-fifth birthday and the fortieth anniversary of his ordination. Left to right: Senate Minority Leader Charles McNary of Oregon, Rev. ZeBarney Phillips, Vice President John Garner, and Senate Minority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky. With German Troops in Copenhagen Stands Aloof Released by the German censor, this photo shows Danish sea men and German soldiers fraternizing after the invading Nazi troops entered the Danish capital. Little Denmark offered no op position to the invaders as they established control of Copenhagen, capital city. The American Federation of Labor will not join any move ment for either a third party or a Roosevelt third term, ac cording to William Green, A. F. of L. president, in a Pitts burgh, Pa., speech. Where Raiders Downed Nazi Planes ‘Wanted—A. Hitler’ Object of at least 20 air raid bombings during the first three weeks of war was the city of Stavanger, Norway. It was here that British air squadrons wrecked numerous Nazi fighting planes and killed many members of the German aircraft personnel in raids on the German-held airport. A reward of $1,000,000 to anyone who will capture Adolf Hitler “alive and unhurt” has been offered by Samuel Har den Church, above, president of Carnegie institute, in behalf of a group of Pittsburgh resi dents. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) C ecil b. de mille has a tip and a challenge—but not an invitation—for young men who can aqt. He urges them to come to Hollywood, though he’s not promising them a thing. “Hollywood today is suffer ing from a serious shortage of leading men,” he declared recently. “Not just handsome ‘glamour boys,’ but good looking, fine-acting, upstanding he-men. There are only a few here—not one- quarter of the number we need— and those few are in such terrific demand that sometimes they’re al most impossible to get.” You see, he’d had trouble in cast ing two of the three male leads in “North West Mounted Police,” in CECIL B. DE MILLE which Madeleine Carroll and Pau. ette Goddard are the leading wom en. Difficulty in getting men to play opposite those two girls! He wanted Robert Preston, and that was simple enough; Preston is a De Mille dis covery. But it took months to get Gary Cooper on a loan-out from Samuel Goldwyn, to whom he is un der contract—exactly ten other pro ducers were after the rangy Cooper at that time. He needed another leading man, one convincing in strength and act ing ability, to be Cooper’s rival for Madeleine Carroll’s hand. It took another three months before he could fill that part with Preston Fos ter. Whereupon he decided that there weren’t nearly enough good looking young he-man actors in Hollywood. (To any young man thinking of accepting Mr. De Mille’s challenge we suggest that you first prove to yourself that you can act and also prove that you have money enough to support you for a long, long time. It took John Carradine three years, as Mr. De Mille pointed out, to get a hearing.) Mrs. Fred MacMurray is studying book binding, and her first efforts will be bindings for all the scripts Fred has done in pictures. We could make suggestions for the proper ma terial in which to bind one or two of them, but she might not like them —and anyway, it’s not an actor’s fault if he finds himself working in a bad one. * It’s the Metropolitan Opera com pany that succeeded in signing up Deanna Durbin; lipr debut with that famous organization is scheduled for the 1941-42 season, but she may make her operatic debut this fall with the Los Angeles or San Fran cisco opera companies. & Edwin C. Hill, noted news com mentator, has installed in his of fice a teletype machine carrying transcripts of all European broad casts. Many of the broadcasts transcribed are intended by Euro pean and Asiatic governments for home consumption, and afford an in valuable sidelight on conditions with in the various countries. Mr. Hill also has his own staff of correspond ents in important cities, and is served by a leading press associa tion. ' 1 1 1 ?*\ It was Andre Kostelanetz, well- known orchestra conductor (“Tune Up Time” is his radio program) and husband of Lily Pons, who initiated the campaign for a United States stamp honoring Stephen Foster. It is the first stamp honoring an Amer ican composer, and as it is a one- cent stamp probably we’ll all be using it. When the postmaster gen eral notified him that it was to be issued, Kostelanetz promptly ar ranged a special Stephen Foster medley of six of the most beloved Foster songs, for “Tune Up Time,” with Tony Martin singing them. During the last two years the Lakeland, Fla., home of Frances Langford, top-flight songstress, has been transformed into a money making citrus farm; she financed it, and her father acts as manager. * ODDS AND ENDS C. Basil Rathbone’s West Highland terrier drank a pan of water containing a vitamin solution for flowers; he'll burst into bloom any day now. C. 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