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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Like a man wronged by a trusted friend, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru last week released the texts of a sad little three-note exchange with Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung on the subject of Tibet...
...Nancy." The end that came so peacefully and quietly to Bernard Shaw, in bed at Ayot St. Lawrence last week, was not unwelcome. "I am longing for my eternal rest," Shaw told a friend just after his 94th birthday. The broken thighbone that sent Shaw into the hospital when he slipped and fell in his garden last September had shown signs of knitting better than his doctors dared hope, but the Shavian spirit was broken for good. When Shaw guessed that he might live only to become a bedridden invalid, he lost interest in the business...
Last week Lady Astor drove down from London to pay him a visit. "Oh, Nancy," Shaw murmured to his longtime friend as she sat gently stroking the parchment skin on his still defiantly bearded white head, "I want to sleep, to sleep." These quiet words were among the last that voluble Bernard Shaw was heard to speak. When the end came, Shaw met it with a faint quizzical smile that might have been construed as satisfied...
...first picture, Ted Wright stands alone on the campus of State U. Dull-witted, slow of speech, shunned by his classmates, he turns to his freshman adviser, Bob, who tells him about ROTC. Bob, unlike his friend Jim, had joined the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps as a freshman in college. The pictures follows him as he admires his new soldier-type uniform in the mirror; in no time it has snared a blonde ("I was just thinking," she says, "--you remind me of the song, 'There is something about a soldier...
...known whether Higgins wanted to set an example to other philanthropists or merely felt that, having no direct heirs, he wanted his money used well. It is not even known just what he thought about science or how it had affected him. He was a close friend of James Gordan Bennett, former owner of the New York Herald, but even Bennett knew little about what his tight-lipped friend was thinking...