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Candid Answer. In prison camp, Hallstein had quickly been spotted as a "good German," and hustled home after V-E Day to help remake his country. Elected rector of Frankfurt University, he was busy trying to run a university of penniless students and wrecked buildings when his phone rang one day in the spring of 1950. The call summoned Hallstein to Bonn. There Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked: "What do you know about the Schuman Plan?" Replied the professor candidly: "Something less than there has been in the newspapers." Hallstein emerged from the Chancellery as chief of Germany's Schuman...
...tennis, with Jane narrowly losing the match, 6-2, 1-6, 4-6. Jane (Edna Best) is a rich, frumpish, middle-aged Liverpool widow, hard of head and blunt of speech. In a jolly first act she descends on her London relatives to announce that she is marrying a penniless architect half her age. There is consternation, opposition, and the sense of a cheerful future for the play, if perhaps a checkered one for the heroine...
...people noticed that there was something the matter with Spilsbury himself. The "infallible" brain was cracking, the sure hands fumbling. The "perfect witness" gave evidence of nervous symptoms, including a crazy fear of losing his job and finding himself penniless. A second stroke and the loss of another son pushed him over the edge...
Last week, penniless and broken in health, Torino was still in the Salta jail; he has yet to be sentenced for anything. When his lawyer petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, the lawyer was thrown in jail for "disrespect." Torino's doctor, who got permission to move Torino to a Salta hospital for a hernia operation last month, also landed in jail. His offense: protesting when the authorities ordered Torino back to jail only four days after the operation. Peron even found a way to send El Intransigente to jail. By terms of his expropriation decree, the mechanical...
Chin Hong, a 40-year-old New York laundryman, had already mailed his $700 life savings to China, to buy his relatives out of a Communist jail. When a letter arrived last week demanding $1,000 more, Chin, depressed and penniless, tried to commit suicide. In a frenzy, he attacked three policemen who tried to stop him. They shot him in self-defense...