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...letter to the editors, a proud parent or doting grandparent will often enclose a picture of the small fry around the house mimicking the TiME-reading habit of the grownups. I thought that most of these pictures were mailed back, but recently we discovered that a researcher had saved a batch of the ones she liked best...
...Cominform clan gathered in Warsaw last week. Occasion: the seventh anniversary of Poland's Communist regime. The Communist nabobs, out in unusual force, were headed by Russian Politburocrat Vyacheslav Molotov, who is not in the habit of traveling to minor Red letter day celebrations in satellite countries unless he has good reason. Also present: Marshal Georgi Zhukov, recalled from the limbo to which he had been banished in 1946; Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, boss of Poland's armed forces (a week ago reported assassinated); Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht of East Germany, the top German Communist; Polish President Boleslaw...
...Baudouin has made 42 major public appearances. Belgium's ministers and statesmen have found him disciplined, earnest and intelligent. Even Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak, his father's implacable political enemy, likes Baudouin, is impressed by his intelligence. More romantic Belgians have seen in the boy's habit of walking with hands folded behind him, in his leanness and in his shyness a clear resemblance to his grandfather Albert...
...more than 50 of his 60 years, Sarnoff has been doing just that. Driving through obstacles is his habit, his joy, his bitter necessity. He says: "There are three drives that rule most men: money, sex and power." Nobody doubts that Sarnoff's ruling drive is power. Says a deputy: "There is no question about it, he is the god over here...
...long after, François impulsively doffed his Benedictine habit, and went absent without leave on a grand tour of the French universities. He became first a theologian, then a lawyer, then a doctor-in all, one of the most erudite men of his age. He was almost 40 when he began writing his tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel, partly for love of writing, but partly for need of money...