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...Chaucer), he was one of modern Britain's keenest literary minds and a master of paradox. A passionate journalist (for 40 years Chesterton wrote for a dozen papers), he was the creator of one of literature's famed sleuths (Father Brown) and the most prominent Roman Catholic convert of his day. A devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once, when he politely heaved himself up in a crowded bus, three women took the proffered seat. A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane...
...legal authority for it. The new Brazilian Constitution which Vargas proclaimed in 1937 authorized him, for purposes of defense, to "dismember" Brazilian states and convert them into Federal territories (like Alaska), governed from Rio de Janeiro under special laws. Vargas' new territories, carved from five states (Para, Amazonas, Matto Grosso, Paraná, Santa Catharina), create a strip of centrally controlled buffer areas along the frontiers between Brazil and nine of its neighbors...
Outspoken Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller is still in Dachau concentration camp near Munich. Last year the Gestapo put him in a cell with two Catholic priests, hoping they could convert one another to formation of a German na tional church. That failed; now Niemöller is back in solitary confinement, well treated, given any books he wants to read...
...They Stopped Dying." With a convert's zeal, De Kruif lists the selling points for prepaid group medical practice...
...conversion of Sir Oliver Lodge also moved Sir Max Beerbohm to draw one of his funniest imaginary confrontations, in which Convert Lodge and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, a British skeptic about spiritualism, look at each other and wonder at an ectoplasmic enigma...