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...tapestry-hung chamber of the Court of Cassation-the Supreme Court of France-when a black-robed justice read a decree upholding the decision of a lower court: Robert and Gerald Finaly, whose Jewish parents had died in a Nazi concentration camp, should be raised by their Jewish kinsmen rather than by their Roman Catholic foster mother, Antoinette Brun. For weeks before the court decision, France...
Catholic hierarchy had been trying to arrange the boys' return from Spain, where zealous Catholics, including eight French priests and nuns, had conspired to hide them (TIME, March 16). Once the boys were returned, an agreement between the hierarchy and the French rabbinate stipulated, the Finalys' kinsmen would no longer press for the conviction of the priests and nuns under indictment for kidnaping...
...salad days of war, meek, myopic Prince Hironobu Fushimi, distant cousin of Emperor Hirohito, was a middle-aged captain in the Imperial navy. His country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
...inverse proportion to the incidence of sound teeth, and poor oral hygiene is predominant in areas with exceptionally good teeth." (Dr. Neumann was thinking particularly of a sight he saw in Samoa: a native nurse, who had lost several teeth and had many fillings, trying to teach her kinsmen-all of whom had perfect teeth-how to use a toothbrush...
...anyone who knew what went on behind the grey post-Capone fagade, it was all a base canard. Surviving kinsmen and colleagues of Al had expanded all their mentor's old rackets-the bookie room, the call houses, the gambling joints, the numbers games and the dope runs. Striving for real class-the quiet stuff-they had moved into riches and power that Al never dreamed of. The trick was done by plowing their illicit earnings into legitimate channels. One man who knew plenty about "The Outfit" of 1950 was William J. Drury, a handsome Irish...