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...little State. At length a ten-year-old boy who was named Pratap Singh Rao Bhonsle was chosen, and plans were immediately laid for the elaborate ceremonies of adoption. The Maharani of Kolhapur consulted with her astrologers and learned that the proper time for the rites was indubitably the 28th of September. The Government of India was informed of this, and agreed, and said so be it. But the father and mother of little Pratap Singh Rao Bhonsle had been studying things out with their own soothsayers, and these cried that the 28th of September was a calamitous choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Day of Days | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...heard. It was being fought by men and machines on continents separated from Mexico by thousands of miles of blue water, in places where Mexicans had never fought. But Mexico, like the U.S. in 1917, rose to meet a challenge to her right to use the seas; the 28th nation to declare its enmity to the Axis, she voted war against Germany, Italy and Japan. Now the whole of North and Central America, from Hudson's Bay to Panama, has entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: State of War | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Real news: Frank Morgan and his wife celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Coach Brown will probably keep the same starting lineup intact as that which started the Yale game. What is developing late the most patent trio of scorers in the league will face the visiting Quakers in an attempted to repeat its 53 to 40 victory of February 28th...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Crimson Hoopsters Battle Quakers Tonight For Fourth Place in League | 3/11/1942 | See Source »

...Harlem's coffee-colored Ray Robinson; a prize fight with Welterweight Maxie Berger of The Bronx; scoring a technical knockout in 1 min. 43 sec. of the second round; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. For Robinson, "the little Joe Louis," it was the 28th victory in a row since he turned professional a little more than a year ago. His next opponent will probably be Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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