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Died. Colonel His Highness Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, G. C.S.I., G.B.E., Maharaja of Mysore, second richest man in India; of heart disease; in Bangalore. A rigid ascetic (his late brother was a dancer-ogling, jazz-crooning rum-pot), the childless Maharaja denied himself meat, fish, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, but kept a fleet of 80 limousines, had a miniature train to serve food to the scores of guests who usually surrounded his banquet table...
...women there was the old German formula of Kinder, Kirche, Kuche (Children, Church, Kitchen). "What is ruining France," wrote Le Figaro, in warning women to retire from professions and to have bigger families, "is the number of childless couples who live a selfish life appropriating two incomes from salaried positions...
...brackets British income and supertax payers are being assessed 85% -basic British income tax rate is 37½%. The Chancellor last week invaded lower brackets, making supertax begin at incomes of $5,250 instead of $7,000, and again treating the British white-collar class rough. A married but childless Briton making $1,050 whose income tax was $17.50 the year before last and $24.50 last year will...
...Mysore. He rules over a prosperous plateau State twice as big as Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...
Russell, who once wrote, "I am sure that university life would be better, both intellectually and morally, if most university students had temporary childless marriages," placidly continued to meet his classes at the University of California at Los Angeles. He remarked: "A man expects that sort of attacks. It is best to ignore them." Meanwhile, to Earl Russell's defense came City College teachers, the parents of City College students, hundreds of educators, philosophers and clergymen, among them John Dewey, University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, Smith...