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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day there were two more items of news about Airman Fischer. The Peking radio announced that he had bailed out and was a prisoner-and quoted his service number correctly. In Las Vegas, Nev., his wife, accompanied by three-year-old Harold III, appeared before a judge in a suit filed weeks ago and got a divorce...
...years later, suspected of spying for the British, he deserted his wife and daughter and fled to London. Knighted for his service to King George III, he soon became famed as a scientific busybody. Most of his experiments in those days dealt with naval cannon (recoil and the velocity of missiles). After the Revolution, Sir Benjamin went to work for the Elector of Bavaria. In short order, he became Minister of War, Minister of Police, Major General, Chamberlain of the Court and State Councilor. In his spare time, he invented a laborsaving kitchen range and organized a workhouse for Munich...
...lavish, old-style pageantry in spite of rain, drew a glittering collection of guests: three kings, three queens, a grand duchess, an archduke, 22 princes, 18 princesses, and assorted lesser nobility. Royal feathers were momentarily ruffled when Princess de Rethy, commoner wife of Belgium's abdicated King Leopold III (father of the bride), got uncommonly close to the head of the procession. But a good time seemed to be had by the 100,000 soggy Luxembourgers and tourists who goggled, cheered and shot off skyrockets...
Pursuing the Wellesley contrast, Duane Roller, head section man in Natural Sciences III, noted "It has been said that Radcliffe girls get all the A's and that's why Harvard prefers Wellesley but that isn't the only reason. S. Marshall Cohen, instructor in General Education, expressed his feeling that "Wellesley girls are prettler, but that Radcliffe is more convenient...
...hand, will not permit his leg to be pulled. Ike may pull Stalin's leg. The News also felt that diplomatically Malenkov would be quite similar to his predecessor. On March 20 the News declared, "Malenkov, like Stalin, will go on waging World War III, Russian style. Under Malenkov as under Stalin Russia is keeping the initiative in that war." And somehow, perhaps because of Ike's preference for the fairway, the News forgot about the gymnastic session of the January 16 issue, "U.S. under Eisenhower as under Truman is on the defensive...