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Whatever might come of this, Mrs. Brady was finished with "Inisfada," and almost finished with her seven years of widowhood. Fortnight ago she admitted she is engaged to marry the Irish Free State Minister to the Vatican, William J. Babington Macaulay (TIME, Feb. 22). Last week Minister Macaulay left Vatican City, bound for a vacation in the U. S. Whether or not the marriage would be performed, as had been predicted, in Rome by Papal Secretary of State Pacelli, who visited at "Inisfada" last autumn (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.), performed it soon would be in a manner befitting...
...Bill" Macaulay first met the Bradys when he was a career diplomat in the British Civil Service. Born of a good Irish county family (no kin to British Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay), he transferred to the Irish Free State service when it was set up in 1924 was sent to Washington as secretary, later became counsellor at the Free State Legation. Dark-haired, affable, fond of bridge, Counsellor Macaulay was popular in the quiet set of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan...
Engaged. Genevieve Garvan Brady, 52, Papal Duchess, widow of Manhattan Utilitarian Nicholas Brady; and William J. Babington Macaulay. 44, Irish Free State Minister to the Vatican...
Borrowing from Macaulay's pleas for competitive civil service examinations, President Conant declared his suspicion of new fields of study, saying that to abandon the old disciplines is to jeopardize "the selective principle in our educational machinery". The issue here he showed to be whether an educated man is one who can do cross word puzzles, or one who has learned how to investigate, study, and draw rational and original conclusions. This distinction is highly important, and one which the student is in danger of over-looking due to the world's apparent disregard for it. Here the superficialities...
...solidarity of the little group begins to splinter. The generals complain of pains and illness, long to be away. The faithful Corsican attendant Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would...