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...skillful biography of prim 1 8th Century British Novelist Fanny Burney, with Sam uel Johnson and King George III, among others, as supporting characters (TiME, March...
...July 8th he was in Palestine. He went directly into action. Chief air opposition came from the Egyjtians flying Italian fighters and British Spitfires, and the single Arab group with a respectable air force. The Israelis flew planes bought through an agreement with the Czech government, procuring Messerschmits which were manufactured at a Scoda plant outside of Prague and flown in bigger planes to Palestine. The Israell also operated several Piper cubs, and increased their air power even further when a group of Beaufighters which were to provide the melodrama in an English movie disappeared from their British field...
...Modern church scholars now question whether the Venerable Bede, an 8th Century Benedictine monk of St. Paul's monastery at Jarrow, England, ever made any such trips. Wrote Bede: "I have spent the whole of my life within that monastery...
Arntzen, Wendell Vaughn of Route 1. Blaine; Bellingham High, Bellingham, Casier, Lawrence Ray of 2148 8th Avenue, Seattle: Queen Aune High, Seattle. Desseau, Gene of 1702 South Lawrence Street, Pierce; Stadium High, Tacoma. Egashira, Elmer Takanori of 2822 18th Avenue South. Seattle: Edison Technical. Seattle...
Through their culture runs the pervasive influence of the Negro and Indian. Brazil draws no color lines. From the 8th to the 11th Century, the Portuguese had lived as subjects of the swarthy, highly cultured Moors, and they had come to look upon dark skin as the mark of beauty. As a result, races intermarried freely. Some of Brazil's greatest statesmen, intellectuals and artists have had Negro blood. Says Brazil's famed Sociologist Gilberto Freyre: the Brazilian "has a certain fondness . . . for honoring differences...