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...French Ambassador has two busy aides in his press attaché, Captain Charles Emmanuel Brousse, bomber-squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France...
Died. Mary Annette Beauchamp, Countess Russell (pen name: Elizabeth), 74, British novelist (Mr. Skeffington, Elizabeth and her German Garden, The Enchanted April), sister-in-law of Mathematician Bertrand Russell; of a blood infection following influenza; at Charleston...
Declared white-haired, deep-eyed Philosopher Bertrand Russell in Chicago: "Although I have preached pacifism all my life, I am convinced now for the first time that freedom cannot be preserved without military struggle. Liberty will die out over the world unless totalitarianism is defeated...
...London home with hundreds of mirrors and curtains of solid silver sequins. One of her London dressing rooms was described as ua corner of a dream." Through her salons moved such guests as Edward of Wales (who gave her his picture inscribed "To Gertrude?Edward P."); Manhattan Socialite Bertrand L. Taylor; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (who gave her a 30-foot cabin cruiser); Peruvian Artist Reynaldo Luza; Adventure Writer Edgar Wallace; and her distinguished leading man, the late Sir Gerald du Maurier (who, despite his distinction, she describes as having been "just like an inky schoolboy with frogs in his pocket...
Aristotelian logic, Reiser says, has dominated Western thought for 2,000 years, confuses science and society by its omnipresent lingering. This logic is two-valued: a thing is either true or not true. Non-Aristotelian logic (which Bertrand Russell rejects) is many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity...