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...When I Am King!" According to the King's devoted ranching neighbor, biographer and friend in Canada, Mr. Frazier Hunt, Edward VIII is a profound fatalist about his own life and personal affairs. As Prince of Wales, however, he would often vehemently say of his inheritance: "Things will be different when I am King!" Great problems of the Kingdom and the Empire to which Edward VIII has for years given his best thought are: 1) how to promote the sale of British goods; 2) how to combat unemployment; 3) how to minimize the clash of British classes...
Hymn No. 467 was written by that great U. S. statesman, John Hay. It begins: Not in dumb resignation we lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist content to trust and die: Our faith springs like the eagle, which soars to meet the sun, And cries exulting unto thee, "O Lord, thy will be done...
...taught by Sam Baldwin of the late famed Baldwin Brothers who began barnstorming soon after the Civil War and had a "balloon farm" near Quincy, Ill. Father Clarence, who limps, boasts that he has at various times broken every bone in his body. Says he: I'm a fatalist. And I'm simply stuck on jumping." The Bonettes are believed to be the only hot-air balloonists now in the business...
Though economists now have the floor and philosophers are, as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset admits, anything today rather than philosophers, this penetrating analysis of the world's state is not economic. No fatalist, Ortega y Gasset, searcher for the truth about Western civilization, believes that something may still be done with the truth when it is found. A yea-saver, his gloomiest proph ecy is still hopeful in a sardonic Spanish way: ''Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or some thing...
...quite so well known is the fact that Alfonso XIII is a fatalist with a great deal of personal courage and a macabre sense of humor. His pride is his private collection of objects which have been used in attempts to assassinate him. In neat glass cases are the poisoned feeding bottle which nearly did him in before he was a year old; a stone on which he nearly split his head as a boy; an assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet...