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Died. Count Konrad, Cardinal von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos, 70, since 1935 Roman Catholic bishop of Berlin; in Berlin. Bora into an ancient Bavarian family, strapping Count Konrad gave up a diplomatic career at 28 to enter the priesthood. As bishop of Berlin, under both Nazi and Communist rulers, he defiantly spoke up for Christian principles...
...years later, Luther himself married Katherine von Bora, an ex-nun, who bore him six children. He became the model for future German papahood, according to Bainton: he appeared to love his children dearly, yet he was stonily unforgiving when disobeyed, and was known to cut up his son's pants to mend his own: he wrote the children gaggingly sentimental letters while he was away from them and sometimes called them "idiots" when he was home...
When Rafael was bora in 1914, Jan Kubelik was one of the world's best in an age of great violinists (Kreisler, Ysaye, Auer, Zimbalist), had made himself a millionaire by his world-circling concert tours. Rafael began his musical training at five, picked out his first composition at eight on one of the Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour...
...immense buried treasure is being recovered from the lagoon of the island of Bora Bora where the U.S. had a base during World War II. The treasure consists of empty Coca-Cola bottles dumped by Army and Navy personnel during the years 1942-45. The natives have dived up more than 30,000 to date, which they sell to soft-drink emporiums in Papeete at 3 francs per bottle...
...Treasure of a far more valuable kind remains on Bora Bora; the So-odd children of Bora Bora mothers by unknown Army and Navy fathers. They are healthy, sturdy youngsters, and probably a great deal happier than nine-tenths of the children elsewhere in the world. Whether born in or out of wedlock, no island child ever goes into an orphan asylum. There are no such institutions down here...