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Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...
...little Marie Nguyen Hu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic betrothed to Bao Dai. Buddhist Emperor of Annam, went tidings of comfort and joy. Marie's question to the Holy Father: "Would the Church sponsor her Buddhist-Catholic marriage if she gave her girl children to the Church, her boy children to the Buddhist dynasty of Annam" (TIME, March 19)? The Pope's answer, announced unofficially from Rome by way of Paris...
...Robert Edward Ringling, when he was a small boy in Baraboo. Wis., the fact that his father Charles was one of the seven brothers who owned the biggest circus in the world meant nothing at all. At seven he took up the study of the violin, followed, when he was ten, by the piano. When a football accident made him an invalid for four years he improved his voice. At 19 he began five years of study under Tanara. After a season of concert work, he had William Brady develop his voice for three years more. He made his debut...
...Should this be neglected and a child grow very ill it must have blood from someone who has just recovered from the disease. Last week Washington's Children's Hospital, announcing that ten children in its care faced death without such treatment, sent out a call for boy & girl convalescents willing to volunteer their blood...
...engaged but not happy. Oliver was a poverty-and ambition-ridden lawyer who haunted the Criminal Courts Building, grimly determined to get ahead without truckling to Tammany. Metropolitan coincidence brought them tragically together. Young Castie Petrella, one of Carolyn's more difficult pupils, a sullen boy who pined for a big, bad reputation, tried to impress his gang by stealing a car. He was caught almost immediately, sent to jail. Carolyn was the only person who understood why he had done it, but her vague inquiries were powerless to help him, until she discovered amiable Amy Turk, wife...