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...July 1947, Tom met Jane Clinton-Baker, daughter of Lady Rosa Agnes Clinton-Baker. On Aug. 20, Tom gave Liana further food for thought. "A month ago," he wrote in a letter, "I met another girl with whom I fell in love the moment I saw her." The Maid of Athens promptly flew to England. Tom met her. "How nice to see you, Liana," he said. Liana did not feel that cozy about it. She threatened to kill herself, she threatened to shoot him, and she finally wound up in a nursing home. Meanwhile, Tom Ridgeway married Jane Clinton-Baker...
...faith in the British, so sadly shaken a few months ago, had been restored. "I may never marry," said the Maid of Athens, "but if I do, he will probably be an Englishman." She has received thousands of proposals from Tom Ridgeway's countrymen...
...showing to France and the world had been assumed on orders from Moscow which were transmitted to the French Communist Party through a minor employee in the Czech embassy.† Last week s statements were framed by the party's Political Control Commission, a body formed some months ago after Rumania's Pauker and Bulgaria's Dimitrov had castigated the French comrades, at a Cominform meeting, for "bourgeois tendencies." The commission has become the most powerful organ in the French apparatus, outranking the Central Committee and even its Politburo. Maurice Thorez is not a member...
...years ago, before anyone foresaw the heights inflation would reach, the government signed a contract with the All India Railwaymen's Federation. It included a cost-of-living allowance pegged to rising prices. The government argued later that it could not keep the contract without contributing to the disastrous price spiral. The railway federation, dominated by Jai Prakash Narain's Socialist Party, screamed that it had been betrayed. In December its 350,000 members voted to strike on March...
Jaakko Mikkola's track team will be aiming for third place behind Army and Yale in today's second annual Heptagonal Meet at Briggs Cage and the Garden. Mikkola has acknowledged the might of the Cadets and Elis, but said a couple of days ago that the Crimson may pull some surprises on some of the other seven teams in the meet...