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In a sun-drenched Riviera villa, high above champagne-soused Nice, lives the ex-Caliph of Islam who has no successor. Deposed and physically ousted from Turkey in 1924 by agnostic President Mustafa Kemal, Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi is still to millions of Moslems "Commander of the Faithful" and "Viceregent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISLAM: Caliph's Beauteous Daughter | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

> A confirmed agnostic (see p. 22), he confronted death with equanimity tinged by curiosity. His personal physician, Dr. Hubert S. Howe, who with the second Mrs. Edison, was present during his last illness, revealed two utterances which interrupted the coma of Edison's last days. Said Dr. Howe: "When asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Titan | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Died. John Francis Stanley, Earl Russel, 65, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Arthur William Russell (who succeeds to the title); of heart disease; in Marseilles. Grandson of Lord John Russell, Victorian Prime Minister, he was, like his brother, a scientist and Socialist. Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Bruce and Myrtle had been engaged be fore he went away to college, but had quarreled because she did not want him to be a minister. Myrtle married her second choice. When she died in childbirth of her first baby, Bruce found they still loved each other, realized too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy of a Preacher* | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Clarence Darrow, militant agnostic and Chicago criminal lawyer will meet the Reverend Dr. Herbert S. Johnson on the platform of Symphony Hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow night on the question. "Is Religion Necessary." The debate which will present the famous jurist before a Boston audience for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARROW TO DEBATE RELIGION IN SYMPHONY HALL TOMORROW | 1/27/1931 | See Source »

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