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Count Alfred Marie de Fouguereaux de Marigny, acquitted of the 1943 Bahamas murder of his millionaire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, turned up in Halifax as a third officer on a Canadian merchant ship, thought he might make the merchant marine his career. On his way to visit his wife, Nancy Oakes de Marigny, 20, he told reporters he wanted "privacy": "Until all this publicity I got when I came into Halifax, the crew respected me. Now . . . they want my autograph." The Count, who doesn't like to be called Count, asked to be "just plain mister...
...Hell's Kitchen. Last week the children along West 40th Street poked glumly among the refuse in a vacant lot across from the Mission and talked about the wonders of Father Norman's Christmas party. Most of the adults, too, felt dimly aggrieved. Said Thomas Phillips, a merchant seaman: "If this guy Norman stole, he stole from the rich to give to the poor-sort of a Robin Hood, you might say. He loaned me $50 once. We're all for him around here...
Butter & Egg Man. Well might the old banker, who had begun his career as a butter & egg merchant in the Balkans, smile in the topiary trimness of his beard. What tides of political refugees had swept through Europe since the beginning of this century! Each had left its human sediment or drift in Switzerland. The Count was sharing the sanctuary from which Lenin and his fellow fugitives had conspired to overthrow the Russian empire. Later the fugitives from Lenin, the White Russians, had sought a haven of safety. In little more than a decade many who had laughed...
...gave veterans too much credit, put them in advanced courses for which they were unprepared. Result: wholesale flunking. Now the American Council on Education, working closely with the armed services, is taking a good long look at each of the training and off-duty courses given to servicemen and merchant mariners. George P. Tuttle, registrar (on leave) of the University of Illinois, and his small staff have already appraised hundreds of courses, expect to cover nearly a thousand before they are through. Sample: the Army Air Forces' preflight training program assays no credit in college, six semester-hours...
Italy, said he, is anxious to play a larger part in the war. "All of the Italian fleet is at the disposal of the Allies. Italian aviators are ready to fly, if planes are given them. About 50,000 Italian merchant seamen could be used on United Nations ships." But what Italy wants most, said Signor Tarchiani, is the chance to build a democratic government of its own. He added hopefully: "I am sure to find here the greatest sympathy and comprehension for Italy...