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Some comfort to harassed Mr. Gandhi was the arrest at Annand last week for the sixth time of Mrs. Gandhi, a disciple whose example of martyrdom grows more precious as other disciples desert the Mahatma. Since he deserted the popular cause of trying to free India for the unpopular one of trying to gain equality for India's "untouchables" his prestige has steadily waned. At Nagpur last month scurrilous Indians even pelted eggs at St. Gandhi, missed their mark...
Meanwhile in Washington a torch of would-be martyrdom to government censorship sputtered dismally out. James True is a white-haired, pince-nezzed newsman who has pattered apologetically in & out of Washington press conferences for many a year. Lately he gave up regular correspondence for several trade journals, began writing a "confidential news letter" called Industrial Control Reports. Last fortnight General Johnson charged James True with filling his letter with ''Misinformation and sabotage" of NRA, barred him from future NRA press conferences (TIME...
...Bruno Walter aroused the week's big demonstration. Bruno Walter (real name: Schlesinger) was first of the Jewish musicians to lose his job last spring in Germany. A conductor without an orchestra, he has drifted around since then, giving guest performances in Holland, Austria, London. Impressed with his martyrdom Philharmonic subscribers, who usually save their hero-worship for Toscanini. stood up when the big. kindly German came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors...
Emerence came to the city to have her baby, and died afterwards, as everyone knew she would. The sight of her willing martyrdom made Cynthia a whole person; she began to work happily again. When Toni's grandmother died the doctor adopted him. Toni, reconciled with the crazy old man, gave him his demonstratedly unlethal telescope. Dr. Gion and Cynthia married, lived happily, and kept a parental eye on Toni and Emerence's orphan daughter...
...scrap-basket scribblings he managed to guess very shrewdly just what plans were under consideration. The beautiful Camilla smuggled the documents out of the country to France and Jugoslavia in the frames of oil paintings. Both confessed, both were condemned to death though King Vittorio Emmanuele forestalled French martyrdom by commuting Camilla's sentence to life imprisonment...