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During the twenties, the donor, Gordon Selfride (who founded one of London's largest department stores) heard that what was left of the Medici family was selling all the family papers. Although the Italian Government heard, too, and withdrew almost all of them, Selfridge bought enough to make 144 volumes. These were first bound and then given to the Baker Library...
...singers withdrew the suit when Krick, an affable and convincing talker, assured them that it probably wouldn't rain anyhow. (Krick insists that he is only a sort of meteorological dairy hand who can only milk, not create, clouds.) But the incident dramatized the fact that Krick, almost overnight, has become one of the West's most controversial characters and that for better or for worse, rainmaking has come to stay...
...second was Admiral Manuel Carlos Meireles, who, though a right-winger, nevertheless spoke out in opposition to Dictator Antonio Salazar's one-man rule, demanded restoration of civil liberties, and end to graft. After assuring anti-Salazar factions that he would not quit the good fight, he withdrew his candidacy three days before election Sunday, and out went Meireles...
Last year emotion ran so high that French crowds yelled "Macaroni!" and "Dirty Fascists!" at the Italian team, and one superheated patriot knocked veteran Gino Bartali off his bike. The outraged Italian team withdrew, and the French Foreign Ministry sent formal regrets to the Italian ambassador. Tempers have since simmered down, but this year's route bypasses Italy, just in case of reprisals...
...resigned as the result of a Civil Aeronautics Board report which charged him with 40 violations of the law and of CAB regulations. Even though Colonial has been in the red for the past five years ($310,000 in 1950), CAB says it "may be shown" that Janas withdrew more than $50,000 of Colonial funds as an advance expense account, and used it to speculate in Canadian currency. "The profits" says CAB, "were retained by Janas." Other CAB charges...