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Best story John Monk Saunders (Dawn Patrol...
...blights the last of the Bourbons. Tsar Nicholas II discovered too late that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile. The frantic mother's efforts to find a cure for her son brought her under the sway of Rasputin, the "Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina was a major factor in the House of Romanov's fall. There were those last week who sympathized with ex-King Alfonso in his terrible...
...palace King Prajad-hipok stopped at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (where he had served his novitiate as a monk before his coronation) to worship his six royal ancestors while yellow-robed priests spun prayer wheels. From the palace jovial Prince Svasti, the King's father-in-law (who smokes fat cigarets) issued a statement...
...Cane Juice, pointed out errors in Mgr. Gassier's charges. He said that the attack indicated the decline of "charitable spirit" and the troubled condition of Christianity. Nonetheless, he respected the Catholic Church. Though Episcopalian himself, he said he was related to twelve priests, three bishops, one archbishop, one monk. He announced he would sue Mgr. Gassier for defamation and libel. The American Civil Liberties Union, always happy to have a cause to champion, offered to support a suit to recover this year's salary in full and a mandamus action to compel a public hearing. Editor Henry Louis Mencken...
Nikki was first written by resourceful John Monk Saunders (Wings) for Liberty, later made into a cinema (TIME, Aug. 31). Now the well-picked carcass has been scraped once more to produce something which might be called a musical tragedy. It is a bewildering, sometimes embarrassing, occasionally entertaining piece relating the experiences of a pretty girl (Fay Wray, the author's wife, in her first legitimate appearance) and four neurotic aviators she has picked up in Paris after the War. To convey the impression that they are just too world-weary, Author Saunders has arranged that they reply...