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...vandals who broke into the Malabar School on Los Angeles' overcrowded east side did a thoroughgoing job. They whirled through nine classrooms, the athletic rooms, the teachers' kitchen and dining room. They broke chairs and tables, splattered ink over the walls, smashed whatever clocks they happened to find. Last week the five boys responsible found out that crime doesn't pay. It had taken L.A.'s special school security section only a few hours to track them down...
Menon, son of a lawyer, was born on India's Malabar Coast in 1897. At 27, he went to London and studied political science (under Socialist Harold Laski) and law. Intending to stay six months, he stayed for 30 years, became active in the British Labor Party, once was even elected a London councilman. But years later, when Britain went to war against Nazi Germany, Menon joined the Communists in damning both sides (though he marched in anti-Nazi demonstrations). Once he was asked whether the Indian people would prefer British or Nazi rule. "You might as well...
...Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, whose flock numbers some 6,500,000 communicants; Theologian John Baillie, 68, onetime Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a Highlander who is an authority on moral philosophy; Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India, one of the oldest churches in Christendom. There were other delegates, some hitherto obscure, who made their mark at Evanston. Among the outstanding leaders...
Ohio's Farmer-Author Louis Bromfield", who has written for every medium short of the head of a pin, turned in his latest copy to a calendar company. The bucolic prose: a description for each of twelve color photographs of his Malabar Farm for a 1955 calendar...
...engorged grossly at a public table, where all & sundry might witness the repellent act of mastication. Nothing, concluded Grandma, could redeem Menen's Irish mother (to whom she always referred flatly as "the Englishwoman," much irking Mrs. Menen). but if Aubrey wanted to become a true son of Malabar and inherit the family wealth, it was not too late. He had only to quaff a goblet of sacred cow's urine and "the sad accident of being born in London" would be forgotten...