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...Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 69, Indian Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research, Jeader in his country's independence movement, intimate of Gandhi and Nehru, scholar; of a stroke; in New Delhi. At the Moslem service for the Mecca-born philosopherstatesman (with about 100,000 mourners, the largest Indian funeral gathering since the cremation of Gandhi), Prime Minister Nehru wept, said: "The whole nation has been orphaned...
...gave New York its first budget system, was named city chamberlain in 1914, resigned after two year because he thought his $12,000-a-year office should be abolished (it was, 20 years later). Turning to banking at 45, he became president of the world's largest mutual savings bank...
...Winchester Star, worked part-time as a telephone operator to buy newsprint-which he paid for on a day-to-day basis. The paper prospered and, with its earnings, Byrd leased an apple orchard. He now owns about 7,000 acres and is the world's largest individual apple grower...
...grim on Amami Oshima, an island in the typhoon-swept East China Sea, 200 miles southwest of Japan. The islanders are beset by leprosy, poverty, poisonous snakes, and fire. Again and again, storm-spread fires have all but wiped out the wooden shanties of Nase, the island's largest town (pop. 43,000). This month such a fire razed one of Nase's poorest sections-and blazed up into an ideological battle between a Communist and a Christian...
Jane Cronin as the Bridegroom's mother, one of the largest and most important parts in the show, tries too hard to be Sarah Bernhardt. In the process she forgets she is a woman and portraying a woman. Thus she misses the tenderness that must go with the hate that she must feel almost against her will. She captures little of the depth of soul or wisdom from suffering--"We want to hear the things that will hurt us"--that the script would seem to grant her. Richard Galvin as the Bridegroom seems slightly foppish in the part...