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Genesis 21. Whatever their feelings, most of New Orleans' Catholics swal lowed the order in silence. Not so Una Gaillot. The wife of a factory clerk and the head of a small racist outfit called Save Our Nation, Inc., she has two sons attending a Catholic high school, and holds an unshakable conviction that racial integration is a sin against God. She helped set up the picket lines around Rummel's residence, issued a flurry of mimeographed essays arguing that segre gation is authorized in the Bible. One scriptural text she cited was Genesis 21, which describes...
Born. To Takako Shimazu (formerly Princess Suga of Japan), 23, Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, and Hisanaga Shimazu, 28, her bank-clerk husband: their first child, a boy. Rank: commoner...
Punctuation & Perseverance. Martin was discharged as a sergeant, settled in Prospect, Me., eked out support for a large family as a part-time laborer and town clerk. But despite intelligence, energy and irrepressible good nature, he made a poor adjustment to civilian life. Without a veteran's pension of $96 a year, he would have starved. Martin was 70 when he wrote his memoirs, but the little volume, bound between two boards with a calf-leather spine, won its author no fame. The current printing, the first in 132 years, is ably annotated by Scholar and Editor George...
Discharged in 1946, White received his law degree from Yale magna cum laude. He married his University of Colorado sweetheart, Marion Stearns, daughter of the university president. Fresh out of law school, he got a cherished appointment: law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson. Kennedy, then a U.S. Representative, had his office near the Court building, and the two met again. "When we bumped into each other, we always had something to talk about," says White. When his term with Vinson was up, White went to two of Washington's biggest law firms in search...
Gedda's English, in fact, that got him his big break in 1958, when he created the role of Anatol in Samuel Barber's Vanessa at the Met. Son of a baritone in the Don Cossack Chorus, Gedda was a clerk in a Stockholm bank when he decided to make singing his career, soon landed a spot with Sweden's Royal Opera, was invited to La Scala. In the course of singing about Europe and at the Met, he has picked up over 70 operatic roles, many of the non-Italian wing, including Grigori in Boris Godunov...