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...apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept the decision as gracefully as possible." Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton and German Tennis Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm, her "dearest friend for years" (notably since her 1951 divorce from her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy), were together again on the Riviera, giving weight to stories that their oft-rumored marriage was finally about to come off. Von Cramm's mother, in fact, had reportedly bustled off to Paris to make...
Queen Mary's grief was soon to be compounded by the news that her eldest and, as many thought, dearest son had chosen to abdicate in favor of a woman who was a commoner, an American, and a divorcee. Through the rest of her life, Queen Mary refused to receive the woman whom Edward loved, but as a mother, she pleaded for her son. "I know," she told the people of Britain that irrevocable day in 1936, "that you will realize what it has cost him to come to this decision." Windsor, without his wife, rushed from Florida...
...China, said its Communist Dictator Mao Tse-tung, "definitely, forever and with maximum resoluteness," will stay faithful to the Soviet Union. He ordered three days mourning for "the most esteemed and dearest friend and teacher of the Chinese people." Quickly getting in its endorsement of the new regime, Peking announced that 47,150 Chinese cadres have been spending two afternoons a week for two months studying a speech Malenkov made last October...
Nobody was happier at the song's success than George M. McCoy, executive vice president of Borden Food Products Co., makers of Klim, a powdered whole milk. On a visit to Leopoldville two years ago, McCoy noticed that, after the bicycle, the phonograph was the natives' dearest possession. He got the owner of a local record company to help him write some lyrics in Lingala, the vernacular understood up & down the Congo River, set them to a jungle rhythm and had records made. The song...
...Peace is the dearest treasure in the sight of free men. I have learned this the stern way-from the sight of war." So, too, had he learned of evil: "The organized evil challenging free men in their quest of peace." The great battle against Communism is above all a moral encounter, and freedom needs to gird itself with unity of all classes for the common good, with "the faith teaching us all that we are children of God," with hope "in the greatness and genius of America...