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...Press Secretary Stephen Early. Press Secretary Early in turn summoned the White House correspondents, sharply told them that the President, in his "off the record" talk about money and prices, had no intention of implying further dollar devaluation, that the market's interpretation of his words was entirely wrong...
Milton is traditionally supposed to have been the great Puritan poet, but Belloc says the tradition is wrong: Milton was not a Puritan but a Unitarian. During his lifetime he shocked England by his turgid pamphleteering for divorce; at his death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there...
...moved from one ward to another, the change in temperature brought about an attack of pneumonia. Another case illustrates the careless diagnosis of the physicians, even though it was but a minor ailment. A student complaining of a sore finger was told by the doctor there was nothing wrong. Upon leaving the office he asked the nurse to look at his finger. She did so and removed a sliver of glass, but probably it was a very small piece. These cases are not unique, unusual, nor isolated ones. They represent only too clearly the actual state of affairs...
...issue of TIME, p. 11, under "Balls," I find the following statement: "Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week." The statement, picturesque as it is creates a wrong impression. Reasons...
...Siamese and anybody else is that the Siamese takes things more easily. It was easy for the late, great King Rama V to beget 236 girls, 134 boys. It was easy for his successor King Rama VI to take the word of a Christian missionary that polygamy is wrong and beget no boy. This plumped the Crown into the lap of a son of polygamous Rama V who became King Prajadhipok ten years ago and abdicated in England last week with the greatest of ease...