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To ordinary Frenchmen, Prince Jean de Broglie appeared the very model of titled rectitude. Descended from one of the country's most illustrious families, De Broglie became a Resistance hero during World War II, served under Charles de Gaulle in various ministerial posts and was a key member of...
The Zionists truly turned Jewish history on its head. For 2,000 years the Jews, often barred from owning land and serving in the military, worked wonders as bankers and merchants. Now we have the Jewish state. The army is among the world's finest, the innovations in agricultural...
(3 of 3) of illustrious predecessors: the Greek poet Pindar (circa 500 B.C.) wrote an ode without using the letter sigma. Lewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician better known for the Alice books, liked to mix the logic of numbers with the freedom of dreams. In this century, James Joyce, Gertrude...
There was also the apparent contradiction that existed between the political views and positions of the public, Socialist Thomas and the private Thomas, a member, however reluctant, of the upper class. Thomas's wife Violet (nee Stewart) was the daughter of one of New York's wealthiest and most illustrious...
This is getting out of hand. For two weeks in a row [Oct. 25; Nov. 1], you have seen fit to depict prehensile appendages-the hands of man and beast-on your illustrious cover. Does this mean that the coveted Man of the Year award might perchance be replaced by...