Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Principal sponsor of last week's "Declaration of European Interdependence" was Count Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi, a Bohemian citizen of the world turned visiting professor of history at New York University. His best-selling Crusade for Pan-Europe (TIME, Nov. 29, 1943) vividly diagnosed the "incurable disease" of nationalism, advocated a United States of Europe as the best palliative...
...Count Alfred Marie de Fouguereaux de Marigny, acquitted of the 1943 Bahamas murder of his millionaire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, turned up in Halifax as a third officer on a Canadian merchant ship, thought he might make the merchant marine his career. On his way to visit his wife, Nancy Oakes de Marigny, 20, he told reporters he wanted "privacy": "Until all this publicity I got when I came into Halifax, the crew respected me. Now . . . they want my autograph." The Count, who doesn't like to be called Count, asked to be "just plain mister...
...things in Dark of the Moon. With its folk songs and dances, its revival meetings and darting witch girls, it is freaked with color, touched with strangeness. But all this adds brightness rather than body to a yarn that is never very robust, and that takes hours to re-count what the ballad tells in a moment. Nor is there much more real poetry to Dark of the Moon than there is real drama. Its folkways make pleasant enough rustic vaudeville, but they smell of Broadway. Its witches' world escapes absurdity, but falls far short of enchantment...
...with the westward-moving Soviet Union. For its part, says the Church, the objective is strictly nonpolitical: all it wants is for the Kremlin to grant complete religious liberty to all persons in Russia and in the Russian sphere of influence. In return, Rome says that the Kremlin can count on the Church to "place no obstacle in the path of justifiable Russian political expansion...
...annual report for 1944, the Atlas president, blunt, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles (cousin of OPAdministrator Chester Bowles), told the stockholders: "The roof of the Fairhaven plant has so many leaks you can't count them all, and the floor is falling in all over the building. The sides of two of the boilers are caving in. The machinery is mostly very old and something falls in pieces almost every...