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Show To I WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON "VTEW YORK. As Adre Maurois becomes an "immortal," it would seem that there ought to be honorable mention, or at least a simple garland But for Spouse of some kind, Maurois Might ioi Mme.Mau-Still Mme.Mau-Still Be Mortal Tf ekTago, he explained how his wife, also a person of distinction, learned typing and stenography to keep his script flowing smoothly and legibly to the publishers. He writes only in longhand, long-hand, said to be quite as cramped and illegible as that of Horace Greeley, and she alone of all mortals mor-tals can translate it. Seat No. 35 in the French academy might still be vacant but for Mme. Maurois. He was born Emile Herzog, in Rouen. His literary divagation was the first short-cut to immortality immor-tality in a line of ancestral woolen wool-en drapers reaching back to the year 900 A. D. He was a bachelor bache-lor of arts at 15 and a doctor of philosophy at 18. He began work in his father's factory, but got right on the job as a philosopher philoso-pher and literateur, so, when he was assigned to the British as an interpreter in the World war, he could fill them in on Byron, Shelley and Keats, and did so. Later he explained Disraeli to the English, and, around the clubs, they bit their pipe-stems and admitted that this French chap knew a lot of things they hand't even suspected. "Ariel, the Life of Shelley" put him in the big literary tournament in 1923, where he has been ever since. He is slight in stature, dapper and fastidious, with his thinning gray hair deployed carefully left and right, gesturing only cautiously with the sensitive hands of an artist. He has an acute, skeptical mind, interested in-terested in politics only in its historic his-toric sweep. He weighs words like an apothecary and it is as a craftsman crafts-man and finished wordsmith that he qualifies for the academy. With keen insight, he has experted America Amer-ica on his numerous visits here, clocking us through the valley of despond. His latest appraisal found us moving out of national adolescence adoles-cence into fully rational, adult statehood. state-hood. He hopes for the best, but is not a fuzzy optimist. The "decline of the humane ideal," he thinks, is the most disquieting trend of the modern world. O WALTON MOORE, of the state l-- department, who will be 81 years old next February, like Mr. Chips, thinks the way ahead lies through the hu-R. hu-R. W. Moore, 80, manities. Mr. Is the Mr. Chips Chips showed Of State Dept. he was no fos" su when they tried to bench him, and no more is Mr. Moore boarding the Pan American clipper for Europe. He is amenable in old-fashioned behavior a tall, quiet, gray, courteous Southerner and alertly adaptable to all new devices de-vices of living. He is keenly interested in-terested in aviation, having taken many airplane flights along the Coast, and one on the German dirigible Hinden-burg. Hinden-burg. The state department's participation in international arrangements ar-rangements for landing fields and the like has been in his hand. In congress from 1919 to 1930, from Virginia, he was a colleague of Secretary Hull. President Roosevelt made him assistant secretary of state in 1933 and later counselor for the department. He is a bachelor, driving 15 miles to his work from Fairfax, Va. He looks as if he could end all war talk just by serving mint juleps all around. tT ERE'S a general who has saved L x more men than any single general gen-eral ever killed. He leads expeditionary expedi-tionary forces against armies of jun- c , ft r , Sle germs Dr. Saving Life, Not victor G. Heis-Taking Heis-Taking It, Forte er of the Rocke- Of This General feller foundation. founda-tion. He is in the news with his report on food research re-search in India, in which experiments experi-ments in animal feeding suggest new access to health and well-being for humans. On May 31, 188D, his father sent him to the barn to turn loose the horse, with the Johnstown Johns-town flood rising. He floated away on the barn, his parents drowned, and he kept on going-through going-through Jefferson Medical college, col-lege, 18 times around the world in his 50-year fight against dis-case. dis-case. Until 1914, he was with the U. S. marine health service, then with the Rockefeller foundation. foun-dation. His Tame blazed out three years ago with his book, "An American Doctor's Odyssey," Odys-sey," and later publications. (Consolidated S'c.ituri-s-WNU Service. I |