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Before World War II's outbreak, the Duke of Kent was known in Britain as a driver of fast cars, an eager nightclub patron (he plays quite good jazz piano), the husband of beauteous, peacock-proud Princess Marina of Greece. But since the war he has settled down, worked hard at his job. Side trip: he will go to Hyde Park on Aug. 23 to visit President Roosevelt. Denied: that he will see the Windsors, who, it was reported, would soon visit their ranch at High River, 35 miles south of Calgary, Alberta...
tolerance of religion by the Soviet Government and a new resurgence of the . . . religion always deep-seated in the heart of the Russian people. It is significant that on the outbreak of the war thousands flocked to the churches for prayer in Moscow and elsewhere...
...months after World War II's outbreak, Adolphe Max died at the age of 69, still beloved of his people, still Burgomaster of Brussels...
Fortnight ago British Broadcasting Corp. began to short-wave to the U.S. the most effective bit of hands-across-the-sea propaganda it has produced since outbreak of the war. Answering You is a kind of international Information Please, with questions supplied by U.S. citizens, answers by a British board of experts. Garbled by sunspots its first time out, Answering You finally hit its stride this week. Formidable was the job of British wizards who undertook to outline Britain's war aims, answer, with appropriate deletion of profanity, such queries as: "Why the hell doesn't England bomb...
...noxious duty Mr. Lawes will escape is witnessing the execution of two prisoners whose attempted escape last April was the first violent outbreak at Sing Sing since 1920. Required by law to witness executions, but a lifelong enemy of capital punishment, the Warden always turned his head, bowed it at the last moment...