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...them. I was taken under guard to a clinic, stretched out in bed and my leg swathed in bandages before they were admitted. "I don't care about myself any more. It is the children's future which concerns me. The court will decide my fate, and I pray that the jury will be kind and let me leave with my children to start a new life in America!" Parade of Innocents. Arlette Stavisky, onetime Chanel model and the mistress of the Great Swindler long before she was his wife, may never have been his confidante and accomplice...
...Charles's route. Through the steaming jungle all along the Malay coast natives ran forth with flares flickering in the dark. But as the days passed it became more & more likely that Sir Charles, who had safely pioneered almost every dangerous airway in the world, had finally tempted fate too far. Hope persisted that he might have landed on some tiny, uninhabited island, some lonely Burma beach. In California, Brother Richard Harold Kingsford Smith recalled that in 1929 Sir Charles was given up for dead when lost for twelve days in the Australian bush. Said...
...Witnesses he and his son could not serve both Jehovah and Country. Jehovah's Witnesses, otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, count 2,500,000 followers in 34 nations (TIME, June 10). Strictly literal-minded, they believe that Biblical prophecies govern man's fate, that formalized religion, financiers, politicians and such emblems as the U. S. flag are agents of Lucifer, who is grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Leader of the sect is big, militant Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, onetime Missouri circuit judge, who campaigned for William Jennings Bryan...
...Milja persuaded Todor to give the organization the purpose it had previously possessed he was assassinated by enemies in his own ranks. Indifferent to her own fate, emotionally exhausted, Milja lived in Paris, saw her onetime comrades destroy one another in fights for spoils. To get her to run one last secret errand, V. M. R. 0. offered the only bribe that could attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja...
...most dejected, the most completely submerged human beings in the United States, those people who write to the 'agony column'of the Saturday Review of Literature. Bringing a note of cheer into the drab lives of these people who have been denied a soul-mate by an unkind fate, the Harvardians pen notes of hope and encouragement every week...