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...Later, at the Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain or proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost no poetry in his last ten years, weighed only 70 Ibs. when he died. Beyond the knowledge of most men, says Author Connolly, Thompson "knew the meaning...
...Gaulle? If ever a Frenchman had the perfect name with which to make himself the lord of France, it is De Gaulle. Every French child started kindergarten history with picture lessons about nos ancêtres, Us Gaulois, early inhabitants of La Gaide. The sound is part of France...
Married. John William Maxwell Ait ken, 29, fast-flying elder son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper publisher, Lord Beaverbrook (London Daily Express)* himself publisher of the Sunday Express; anc Cynthia Monteith; in London. An officer in the auxiliary air force, Aitken left ; few hours after the wedding to join hi newly mobilized unit...
...Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, Michigan, 83% ; voice quality and delivery good, mannerisms poor, poise good. Since 1936 (when his voice was "that of one haranguing a mob") he has "given more attention to his radio appearance, anc today he speaks with vigor and force, but without that displeasing quality he once...
...genius of the 16th Century. At time when the guilds were breaking up and Italian Renaissance influence wa; breaking in, Breughel painted mischievous magnificent scenes of everyday Flemish life. The Worcester exhibition left U. S students still obliged to go to Antwerp Brussels and Vienna to see his larger anc greater works...