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Before the Fact. The accused had many aliases; Satan and Evil were two. In India, however, the accused was feared and terribly propitiated by millions as Kali, goddess of death and catastrophe, wife-conqueror of the eternal Siva, the dancer. Not in Kali's name were the 100,000 killed. The Moslems despised her as a wretched idol. The Sikhs* ignored her. Even most Hindus no longer participated in the rites of Kali's priests, who dismembered goats (in lieu of human victims), spraying the blood upon worshipers crowded in fields of which Kali was mother, fructifier...
Maimed Soldier. Cortez, conqueror of Mexico, died in the year (1547) Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra was born. The writer's life outlasted the Siglo de oro (Golden Century) of Spain's empire; he died in the same year (1616) as his great contemporary, Shakespeare. A soldier, like every active Spaniard of his period, Cervantes commanded a longboat against the Turks at the decisive sea fight of Lepanto (1571) and got his left hand crushed. The Christian commander, Don John of Austria, later gave him a letter of commendation. Carrying the letter, Cervantes was captured by the Turks...
...honest, observant, and has a theme at once simple and troubling. Its hero, Lieut. Cooper, works in the Newspaper Section of Military Government; his job is to unearth heroes, i.e., German journalists who had bucked the Nazis and somehow survived. He squirms guiltily in his role of judging conqueror. How would he, as a German, have stood the test of the Nazi terror? What right has he, a noncombatant desk officer who has always doubted his own courage, to browbeat the uncourageous...
Hatcher fired a dean who had once opposed his promotion to a full professorship. Then he forced out able Dr. Beryl lies Burns, dean of L.S.U.'s crack medical school, and 27 staff doctors quit in protest (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945). His campus enemies called Hatcher "William the Conqueror," and many left rather than be conquered. Last week 58-year-old President Hatcher himself quit. Reason: ill health...
...retreat from Moscow was over; in a room at Fontainebleau, the defeated Emperor Napoleon meditated suicide. "Preceded by the enormous Cossacks of the Imperial Guard . . . [Tsar Alexander I] rode slowly through the streets. In gaping astonishment the citizens of Paris gazed upon their conqueror. His enormous feet were thrust into stirrups of wrought gold . . . above the gold collar . . . they saw the face of a benignant calf...