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...youth. He is the only Dictator alive today with a thorough knowledge of the contents of the Bible. Instead of being cremated, as tradition decrees for Communists, the Dictator's beloved second wife lies buried by his order in the consecrated ground of a historic Moscow convent (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932). Although active profession of atheism is the badge of a Communist, Joseph...
...away. She took refuge with an unfeminine girlfriend, and Bohemia was soon calling her "one of those." Then Eva ran away to Italy and discovered a new kind of love in her adoration of a Franciscan monk. Not only saintly but wise, he kept her from entering a convent, sent her back to work, told her to wait until the right man came along...
Marietta herself got off to a bad start. Abandoned as an infant by her actress mother, she was brought up by a surly innkeeper, ran wild in the small-town streets. When her foster-father grew threatening she took refuge in a convent, graduated from there to the bishop's household. When the bishop, a fine upstanding man, found Marietta's nubility troubling, he married her off to a young coffinmaker. She liked marriage and wanted children but got none; so she went back to the bishop for help. Then she ran away. A year later she turned...
...they were powerless to prevent broke (see p. 14). ¶Turning in his commission as Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Joseph Patrick Kennedy of Boston prepared to sail with his wife to put one of their sons in the London School of Economics, a daughter in a Paris convent. He said he was "out of politics . . . for the rest of my natural life." On the President's say-so, the other SECommissioners elected as Chairman Kennedy's successor James McCauley Landis who helped frame the Securities Act of 1933 while serving on the Federal Trade Commission...
...unscrupulous plotter, a madwoman. In Joseph Shearing's short biography this daughter of an impoverished provincial noble is presented, with unqualified admiration, as pure, eloquent, composed, inspired by the noblest of human motives, facing both her crime and its consequences with unearthly serenity. Seven years of seclusion in a convent had deepened her knowledge of and admiration for the noble heroes of antiquity, without giving her an understanding of her own time. On July 10, after giving some of her cherished possessions to her friends, she put on a dress of pinstriped brown pique, a high-crowned black hat, picked...