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Near Durban, Natal, 150 fellow Indians gathered to watch Manilal Gandhi, 58-year-old son of the late Mahatma, sip a glass of lemon juice, honey and hot water, to break his 14-day fast held in protest over South Africa's segregation laws. Gandhi, 20 Ibs. lighter, announced that he would ask the South African government once again to change its laws, before breaking one of the laws himself as a further protest...
Roosevelt in Retrospect was a fast, typical John Gunther look at F.D.R.; Louis Fischer looked longer at Gandhi but had more trouble trying to tell what he thought he saw, in his slogging, monotonous Life of Mahatma Gandhi. One of the year's best biographies was Amy Kelly's scholarly and readable Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings; another was Yale Professor Roland Bainton's exhaustive life of Protestant Martin Luther, Here I Stand. Louise Hall Tharp, a writing housewife, dared to try a delicate job and brought it off successfully in a spirited three-woman...
...such a thing as cause and effect, there must be a reason for Princeton's overwhelming superiority. Ideally, and probably, one single factor exists at Princeton which accounts for the Tigers' consistent success. Is it really true that Branch Rickey owns half interest in the squad? Is it the Mahatma's game that secretly guides coach Caldwell? Or is it more basic, something in the Howard Johnson food that all freshmen must absorb for a year? Is it to be found in the eating of food from plates, a thing which goes on daily at the eating clubs...
Globetrotting after the war, Kaltenborn had an interview with Mahatma Gandhi shortly before his death. "He apologized for receiving us in a reclining position, explaining that he was still weak from his recent fast ... I asked Gandhi if he would accept the American ballpoint pen I had in my vest pocket." When secretaries scrambled for the trinket, "turning to me [Gandhi] said with a wan smile, 'You see how I am surrounded by selfish sinners...
That sounded reasonable enough, but hardly anybody in baseball really thought that Branch Rickey was trying to leave the game for good. Baseball rather expected that the Old Mahatma must have another new idea...