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...Manhattan last week, ten years later, Stanislaw Skrzeszewski, representing Red Poland at the General Assembly, rose early and departed from his hotel room for the U.N. The maid, making his bed, discovered beneath his pillow a loaded .38-caliber revolver. She called police, who, on learning the identity of the owner, suggested that Foreign Minister Skrzeszewski get a pistol permit. Headlined the irreverent New York Daily News: "GUN IN UN BIGGIE'S BED; LOUD DITHER, LITTLE ACTION." Skrzeszewski has otherwise distinguished himself in U.N. by his pleas for disarmament...
...Story of Robin Hood. Robust version of the old legend, with Richard Todd fighting for king, country and fair Maid Marian (TIME, June...
...temper, he outlined an ultimatum to the Bevanites-disband the party-within-a-party and stop calling names in public. Nye Bevan, his eyes round with affected innocence, faced the challenge with the wounded mien of a child accused of palming the queen in a game of Old Maid. With hands spread wide, he offered to throw his group meetings open to all and let "those who suspect us come and hear for themselves...
...Devils. Many a son has reacted to parental righteousness by going wrong. But Aleister Crowley is one of the few who deliberately devoted a lifetime to creating a "religion" out of every vice in the catalogue. At 14, he seduced the kitchen maid while his mother was at church, and butchered a cat to see whether it had nine lives. These were mere preliminary excursions; he inherited a fortune from his pious father and went on to broader fields. At 23, he became Brother Perdurabo ("I will endure to the end") of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn...
...lene Noris is a lonely, wide-eyed girl with her snub nose pressed flat against the windowpane of life. Her widowed father is a stuffy businessman parceling his time between his shops, his stocks and his political ambitions. When Hélene wanders to the kitchen for companionship, the maid shoos her out, tells her: "Masters are masters and servants are servants! Society makes these rules." To give her life a dash of drama, Hélene pretends, when in school, not to know her lessons-just to hear her classmates titter and her teachers upbraid her. Down deep...