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...King of Calf Island and his buried treasure were back in the news last week-for the last time. The King, a wild, unkempt, silent man, came to Boston in 1846, got a lonely job as keeper of Bug Light, finally retired to salt-bleached solitude on an outer harbor island. By waterfront legend, he was one of the pirates who had ravaged the West Indies early in the 19th Century, had come to the U.S. from Canada after murdering a man with a barrel stave. The King died in 1882 without discussing the matter...
...have lost our moral guts, and, unless we implement our intentions with actions, our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters have died in vain. In another future we will say, "God, help us," and we will forget to say, "For we helped ourselves." We are our brother's keeper, we can afford to be our brother's keeper, we must be our brother's keeper...
...presidents of federated Soviet republics, most of the Red Army's general staff, most of the leading sections of the NKVD, most of the Peoples Commissars, herds of Communist bureaucrats, droves of Old Bolsheviks and masses of Soviet citizens of all ranks, political shadings, sizes & shapes. Even the keeper of the Moscow zoo did not escape: he was charged with improperly feeding the lions. A certain "dizziness from success" led to excesses. Some comrades were liquidated by mistake. But they were posthumously reinstalled in the Party and the liquidators liquidated in their turn. Only the Russian Government knows...
...Premier and his ministers now held only shadow authority. And the Emperor seemed to be completely in the hands of the war lords. For the war lords hold the three key posts at court: Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (Marquis Kido, military puppet); Grand Chamberlain to the Emperor (Admiral Hisanori Fujita); and Imperial Household Minister (former Finance Minister Ishiwata, long a military stooge). They decide who is to have access to the Emperor, what he shall do, what documents he shall approve by affixing his seal...
...rocky coast of Maine one night last week a group of fishermen gathered to watch a lighthouse keeper pull a switch. When he did, famed Portland Head Light, which the war had darkened for the first time since George Washington's day, once again threw its guiding light some 30 miles out over the sea. The fishermen noted it with appreciative nods; in Portland Harbor the whistles blew a hoarse chorus of applause...