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Declaring that "poets are not to be impressed into the service of politicians," black-thatched, crook-nosed Poet Joseph Auslander, consultant in English poetry at the Library of Congress, told a Manhattan lecture audience what poets should write about: "The moon is still frontpage news every night. As soon as a poet ceases to be excited by the first daffodil, love, God, flowers, the world in general, what Kipling called 'the whole glooming welter,' he stops being a poet by the grace of God."
Francis Stevenson Hutchins, former head of Yale-in-China, brother of University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins, was inaugurated as president of Berea College, self-help vocational school in Kentucky. Retiring president: his father, William James Hutchins.
In Chicago, neat, sketchy-mustached William Patrick Hitler, 28, British-born son of Adolf Hitler's halfbrother, announced that Uncle Adolf's "medieval barbarism and his sellout of those who backed him . . . [have] made his downfall inevitable. If there is a blowup in Germany it will come from within the leadership of the German Army. . . ."
Return to the U. S. of French Cinemactor Charles Boyer, mustered out of the over-manned French Army, brought varied comments from Manhattan's press. Said the august N. Y. Times: "It is not merely that he is a very important ambassador of good-will here ... but his Hollywood salary is capable of creating a tidy sum of foreign exchange for France. Such potential foreign exchange can be used by France to buy more airplanes or other equipment here than Mr. Boyer could possibly directly build or fly." Hissed Hearst's N. Y. Daily Mirror: "We want to warn American women that Monsieur 'Bedroom Eyes' Boyer is already married, to a quite adequate English wife, the onetime movie star, Pat Paterson."
Chosen outstanding Washington debutante of the current season at a Washington, D. C. benefit party was demure, brown-eyed, 18-year-old Patricia Proch-nik, daughter of Edgar L. G. Prochnik, Austrian Minister to the U. S. left jobless by the Anschluss, now a lecturer at Georgetown University. To the inevitable question: "Do you want to be a glamor girl?" Patricia, dressed in an outfit made by her mother, replied: "I'd rather be animated and friendly and just natural."
Virginia's octogenarian Senator Carter Glass hurried from his home in Lynchburg to Washington, D. C. to have out a painful tooth. But, as Senator Glass reported to newsmen: "I didn't have to have it drawn. The dentist looked at the tooth and reminded me that it was a false one."
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* Princess Zeneide Youssoupov, 78, whose son Felix helped assassinate the "Mad Monk," died last week in a Parisian home for the aged. Her daughter-in-law, Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov, wife of Felix, in 1934 collected some $375,000 in damages from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for implying in Rasputin and the Empress that she had been raped by Rasputin.