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All this time a busy little old man in a derby hat was rushing officiously about. Craning their necks behind rows of police, onlookers whispered that it was "Monsieur de Paris," traditional name for France's executioner, otherwise Anatole Joseph Deibler, 76.* Immediately another closed van rattled into the...
Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-78) was the first member of the family to revolt completely against Calvinism. When her fiancé was drowned in a shipwreck, she declined to believe a preacher who told her "God has answered all his benevolent purposes by his death, and all is well.'...
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87). One of his earliest letters was: "Der Sister. We ar al wel. Ma haz a baby. The old sow had six pigs." He was educated at Sister Catherine's Hartford Female Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological...
Last fortnight, Catherine the Great was banned in Germany because its star, Elizabeth Bergner, is a Jew. Last week German censors banned Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs (Das Hohe Lied) on the ground that she was portraying an immoral character. In Vienna censors banned Mae West in She...
Engaged. Charles Francis Adams Jr., 23, son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy, descendant of John and John Quincy Adams, second & sixth U. S. Presidents; and Margaret Stockton, 19, daughter of Philip Stockton, president of Boston's First National Bank. ¶ To Abbe Georges Lemaitre, professor at the...