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...ominous text: "Bastard slips shall not take root," whereupon Richard declared his brother's children illegitimate, and took the throne himself. For a short time, the little prince and his brother were seen by passers-by "shooting at butts ... on the Tower greens." Then they disappeared. Atween Two Feather Beds. "Some said," writes a contemporary chronicler, "they were murdered atween two feather beds, some said they were drowned in malvesey (wine) and some said that they were sticked with a venomous potion." Two hundred years later, the skeletons of two children were discovered by workmen at the base...
...direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable to maintain 10,000 ft." The trouble was spelled out: the Constellation's left inboard engine was out of control, could conceivably shake the engine loose from its mount. Veteran Pilot Luis F. Plata, 39, had tried vainly to feather the prop, i.e., to still it by turning its blades into the air stream. With the engine dead, the prop was windmilling loosely...
...Feather and the Salmon, a fairy tale written some years ago by Christian Pineau, now France's Foreign Minister, tells of a little boy who is carried on a salmon's back to an island inhabited only by birds and a man-eating serpent. The boy, undismayed at the sight of the bones of previous victims, succeeds in establishing good relations with the serpent...
With all the other reading they have to do, it is unlikely that any of the shapers of U.S. foreign policy ever took time out to read Feather and the Salmon. Last week as elegant, 51-year-old Christian Pineau arrived in the U.S. "to coordinate our policies," it was apparent that they might have missed something...
...five other charities recommended on the pledge cards, Red Feather received $1264, American Friends Service and Fund for Negro Students, $740; World University Service, $345; and Salzburg Seminar, $311. The Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, while not listed on the pledge card, received $581 of specified contributions...