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Dividends. In Boyne City, Mich., Mrs. Hudson Robinson cut open a fish, found the earring she had lost two years ago at a fish hatchery. In Lancaster, Pa., Fisherman Cyrus Dietrich pulled in his line, found a five-dollar bill on his hook...
...accused who flatly denied any connection with a Communist plot to infiltrate the U.S. Government was Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee a fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 23), he admitted knowing many of the others also named by ex-Communists Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. But he denied that he had ever been a Communist...
...Deal brain-truster, he was one of the authors of the ill-famed Morgenthau Plan, which would have reduced Germany to an agrarian country. He represented the U.S. at Bretton Woods, birthplace of the World Bank. Over a year ago he had left his last Government post, as U.S. executive director of the International Monetary Fund, and become a Manhattan fiscal consultant...
Since India and Pakistan became independent just one year ago, 561 of 562 princely states have joined either one dominion or the other: The holdout is Hyderabad, about the size of Minnesota, whose ruler, the Nizam, is said to be the richest man in the world. Last week, under pressure to become part of India, Hyderabad appealed to the U .N. Security Council for help in preserving its independence. In Hyderabad, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar examined Hyderabad's cold war with India, which may touch off a new wave of Hindu-Moslem warfare. Lubar cabled...
Three months ago Maria announced that she would die on the night of the Feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15. When the day arrived, the village of San Giovanni Lupatoto was crowded with 20,000 visitors. They came afoot, on bicycles or riding two-wheeled donkey carts. As they waited for Maria's death, their own life brawled through the narrow streets. Barrels of wine flowed at the village inns. Sidewalk loafers opened up parking lots for bicycles, hawked Maria's autograph to dusty pilgrims. In the village square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes...