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...spiritual character he entered a monastery in 1920, donned tunic, girdle, scapular, hood and mantle, began to study the Carmelite specialty, mystical theology. Eventually he became head of the order in all France...
...Skimeisters made Froelich's lodge their rendezvous. They talked about the war. They talked about the National Open Slalom tournament on Mount Hood in 1939, when some of them had refused to race until the Nazi flag was displayed with the flags of other nations in the lobby of Timberline Lodge. They talked about little Peter Radacher, who had since gone back to Germany to fight. Much beer, much talk flowed at the Froelichs'. One day the talk suddenly ceased. In Washington, the Congress of the U.S. declared war. In Washington, at headquarters of the Federal Bureau...
...grey, low land around Grays Harbor, where the Wynoochee, Chehalis, Wishkah and Humptulips Rivers have scooped out the best natural pass inland. Centering on Centralia and Chehalis, the invaders would throw their left flank toward Seattle, their right toward Portland. They would seize the passes in the Baker-Rainier-Hood chain and sit tight...
That night the committee recessed for Christmas. When the holidays are over, Harry Truman hopes to have another go at finding out what happened to Little Red Riding Hood...
Died. Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...