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That afternoon Peter Townsend went shopping with Mrs. John Wills, the Princess' first cousin, best friend, and the mother of Margaret's first goddaughter. Back at Lowndes Square, Peter got a phone call from Clarence House. An hour later he arrived at the mansion where Margaret and her mother live, and was instantly admitted-to meet Margaret for the first time since the summer of 1954, when he paid her a secret visit under the incognito, "Mr. Carter." Two hours later Townsend emerged, smiling but tactfully closemouthed. "Are you happy?" asked one reporter. "Yes." answered the captain...
...wishes. His new Resident General, the colonists' candidate, General Boyer de Latour, carried out Faure's orders only as he saw fit. Rather than institute the three-man regency council that Faure had proposed, De Latour let Sultan Moulay Ben Arafa delegate his powers to a cousin. "Whom does General de Latour obey-your government or Marshal Juin or [Defense Minister] Koenig?" demanded the Socialists...
...Cousin Moulay. Behind him, Ben Moulay Arafa left decrees announcing his decision to leave "without in any way relinquishing our rights," and delegating "to our cousin Moulay Abdullah ben Moulay Abdel Hand the task of taking care of matters relative to the crown." The nationalists were not pleased. They knew little about Hand except that he is a stout, 50-year-old man working in a government office in Rabat. The government was obviously embarrassed, insisted that Hand's appointment would not "exclude" Faure's plan for a three-man Regency Council...
Home & the River. The case concerned Emmett Louis Till, 14, who was sent by his mother, a Government office worker ($3,900 a year) in Chicago, on a family visit to her home town with her uncle, Mose Wright, 64, a sharecropper and sometime preacher. One day a cousin drove him and some other Negro youths to the nearby hamlet of Money (pop. 75) to buy 2? worth of bubble gum. On leaving, his friends later said, Till rolled his eyes and whistled lewdly at a white woman in the grocery, Mrs. Carolyn Bryant, 21. Later two white men took...
...astonished neighbors that he had joined the Roman Catholic Church, and since there was no church of that denomination any nearer, he could stay at home Sundays from now on." Other members of the family adapted themselves to the manners and morals of the day with equal resourcefulness. Cousin John Rand, a fashionable Victorian portrait painter and the inventor of the collapsible paint tube, was a fine figure of a man. "He stood an even six feet, four inches; his wife did not quite reach five feet. Fashion decreed that the lady should always take the gentleman...