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True partition, with fixed boundaries and complete autonomy, still seems the one best plan, imperfect as it may be. The alternatives are further delay, suffering, and perhaps, bloodshed. Britain would be rid of Palestine, which up to now it has been trying to drop with well glued fingers, at the same time retaining a military base. The Jews would find the area of their future expansion defined and limited, but they would have a haven and a future. And the Arabs, while renouncing claim to a sizable area of the Holy Land, would unquestionably be able to negotiate a suitable...
Here, it is presumed that idealism does and should exist, and it is admired even though it be imperfect or naive. One espouses it the more fiercely when he observes the conditions which allow it to die. Idealists are sometimes wrong, but always right...
Married. Ilka Chase, 41, willowy, whimsical radio and stage actress, author of boudoir best-sellers (Past Imperfect, In Bed We Cry); and Dr. Norton S. Brown, 42, her personal physician; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev., three days after Author Chase won a divorce from second husband William Murray. First husband: Actor Louis (The Magnificent Yankee) Calhern...
...have read; Stockholm's Aftontidningen found his selection "inscrutable." The secretary of the Swedish Academy gave a clue to the enigma by praising him as "one of those who first eluded German suppression of a free opinion." The gist of Hesse's opinion: mankind, though weak and imperfect, must meet the challenge of 20th Century chaos and by undiscouraged effort try to create whatever areas of meaningful existence...
Died. Gabriel Wells, 85, onetime penniless Hungarian immigrant who won fame & fortune as bibliophile and bibliopole; in Manhattan. Most famous transaction: purchase of an imperfect Gutenberg Bible, which he sold book by book (Genesis brought $5,100) and leaf by leaf ($150-$500 a page...