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Died. Claud Bowes-Lyon, 89, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of England's Queen Elizabeth; in Forfarshire, Scotland. Worried by taxes, the spare, benign Earl once feared he would have to sell his Glamis Castle (pronounced Glarms), "the oldest inhabited house in Britain," long supposed the spot where Macbeth murdered Duncan and sleep...
...McWilliams, the soapbox fiührer who used to berate the Jews and laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling, leader of the "Mothers' Crusade" which once sprawled noisily...
Expert In Rackets. Again Bishop Garbett resolutely dug in. A bachelor, he struggled with the malnutritive budgets of swarming slum families. He became an expert in the manipulations of loan sharks, mastered the ins & outs of rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service...
...book's 150 portraits, were good. They were grave and unaffected, erring, if in any way, on the side of gentleness. Their children were full of grace. The young women were fragile, and the young men were self-satisfied without being either complacent or smug. Their elders were benign, mellowed, trustworthy. They dressed comfortably (there are some 50 pictures of their Sunday and everyday costumes in the book). They built good houses, good ships, strong forts, sturdy barns. They drew good plans for them. They carried muskets so formidable that many a contemporary householder may envy them. They worshiped...
Tall, cheerful, benign, the son of a poor man who died soon after he was born, Confucius (551-478 B.C.) married at 19, fathered a son and two daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew...