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...November 1868, James once again took up his medical studies and worked with sufficient tenacity to earn an M.D. degree the following spring. Although his excellent performance on the examinations was a temporary boon to his spirits, by autumn he had begun to decline rapidly. The next three years were to be his worst; a sense of moral impotence constantly plagued him. While suicide seldom seemed like a "live" option, thoughts of taking his life never wholly departed from his mind...
...presence of one vestigial Nazi dreaming in the dark of a concert hall while listening to a Rubinstein Appassionata would freeze his fingers into furious claws. But the jokes are worn with time, and the thriving German market for Rubinstein recordings has diluted his horror of German ears. Last autumn, when Frankfurt Impresario Hans Schlote proposed the Nijmegen recital, Rubinstein agreed, comforted partly by Schlote's historically incorrect observation that persons mentally adaptable to war crimes are unlikely to turn up at piano recitals...
Konrad Adenauer has so often changed his mind about retiring as West German Chancellor that his repeated private promise to step down next autumn was usually greeted with the cynical refrain that "fall will be a little late this year." But last week, on a nationwide German television hookup, der Alte at last stated publicly that he would step down "on schedule." Declared Adenauer: "I have often said that I will seek my retirement in October or November 1963. What I have declared will remain unchanged." Bonn politicians took heart. Not once in the program did he mention the word...
...squeeze on the Blue House last week, and South Korea's month-long political crisis vanished-for the moment. Bowing to Washington's wishes, General Park Chung Hee, who occupies Seoul's blue-roofed presidential mansion, agreed to let civilian politicians have their say until next autumn...
Separated from her husband since autumn, blonde Mercedes Douglas, 46, finally declared that she will divorce Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 64, when she goes to their home in Washington State this summer. No dissenting opinion came from the judge, who cryptically advised: "Just put me down as no comment." In 1953 he became the first Supreme Court Justice divorced while serving on the bench, when his first wife Mildred charged desertion. The second Mrs. Douglas, a onetime research assistant on the Justice's staff, will specify grounds of "mental cruelty...