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...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, titian-topped Countess Renée Maeterlinck told how she got her husband, octogenarian Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, to write the memoirs he will publish next autumn: "I trap him as a cat would a mouse. I ask him questions. I make him answer me. Then pretty soon he's writing a book...
...late autumn sun spread a dull sheen over the refuse-strewn waters of the Plata River. Slowly the small, grey minesweeper Drummond nudged against a deserted wharf. Down the gangway stepped a tired, disheveled, stubborn old man, Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, Vice President of Argentina from 1938 to 1940, Acting President from 1940 to 1942, President from 1942 until last week, President in Exile for one day, now ex-President...
...grievance stirred them to this unusual action. Last autumn, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops charged that Protestant missionaries in predominantly Catholic South and Central America were "a disturbing factor," and suggested that they should stay away. Since then the U.S. Catholic press has kept the issue alive...
...government of adolescent King Peter in London have held that their forces should be saved for the moment of Allied invasion. The Partisans often accused Mihailovich of collaborating with the Axis. Last week it became known that the British, who have been trying to coordinate Yugoslav resistance since last autumn, were making another attempt to persuade Mihailovich to get down to the business of fighting the Axis...
...Last autumn, the Harvard Corporation accepted the gift to be presented to the City of Boston upon compleion. The park and playground, open for public use, will be presented by President Conant, chairman of the meeting...