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...born in Navarre, the province of General Franco's best Spanish fighters, the ardently royalist Carlist monarchists. Pozas' brother, a Rightist officer, was reported killed in the same plane crash with Franco's right-hand man, famed General Emilio Mola (TIME, June 14). A cousin, General Gabriel Pozas, is also fighting in the Rightist ranks. Leftist Sebastian Pozas has never concealed his disgust at Anarchists and other Leftist terrorists, did his best to suppress Leftist murder squads in Madrid in the earliest, bloodiest days of the war. In Morocco twelve years ago he and Francisco Franco were...
First defendants to file before sharp-eyed Willis Van Devanter in 28 years were a restaurant manager named Earl Frederick Palmer and his chef, Gabriel Morosi, charged with conspiracy and the passing of an altered $10.000 Treasury note which had been part of $2,000,000 stolen from United States Trust Co. of New York and Bank of Manhattan Co. in 1935-36. After tilting several times with celebrated Defense Attorney Samuel Leibowitz during the four days of the trial, Justice Van Devanter settled down to make his charge to the jury...
Having thus from his pulpit addressed his congregation in Woodstock, Va. one January Sunday in 1776, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg flung wide his Lutheran minister's gown, revealed himself in the uniform of a colonel of the Continental Army. The congregation cheered. That day Pastor Muhlenberg gained 300 recruits to his 8th Virginia regiment, called "the German regiment" and a model of efficiency. Colonel Muhlenberg, son of a German who in 1748 organized the first American Lutheran federation, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, had gone to Woodstock in 1772 after journeying to England to be ordained an Anglican minister, since...
...studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...
...Gabriel Richard, a priest of the teaching Sulpician Order, left his native France during the revolution, was sent to Illinois as a missionary, finally settled in Detroit in 1798. Arriving two years after the U. S. had annexed the Michigan territory, Father Richard was a leader of the village of less than 1,000 a year before its first merchant arrived. The priest brought Michigan its first piano, its first organ (whose pipes Indians stole, returned when they suspected the Great Spirit was angry), its first printing press on which he got out the territory's first newspaper...