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...dying. In their Copacabana Palace suite in 1947, Carol at long last married Elena Lupescu, whom he proclaimed Princess Elena. When Magda recovered, they went to live, a portly, aging couple in Estoril in Portugal, haven of exiled royalties. There last week, with Magda beside him and few to mourn him, Carol, 59, died of a stroke...
...Congress. Instead Selective Service promulgated regulations which were designed to keep the colleges full of students and give in fact total exemptions to most scientists and engineers.... But by and large it has been the boy who was not able to go to college whose family has had to mourn. It is obvious that such a policy does not make for national unity...
That is why we mourn Conant's departure from education. He has been its leader not merely because of his speeches and Writings, nor because his administrative ability and his scholarship commanded respect, nor because he was president of Harvard. His most important role was as an example, as an illustration of what an educator can be and should...
...Frenchmen in Morocco's teeming, gaudy boomtown Casablanca, some 1,000 miles from the scene of the murder, had even heard of the victim, Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached (TIME, Dec. 15). Yet Casablanca's Nationalist daily El Alam that day urged all Moroccan workers to mourn his death in a general strike. At a strike meeting in the headquarters of the General Union of Moroccan Syndicates, Abdesslem Jibli, knife-faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited French Communists. His listeners...
...when our hearts burst, there is none that will mourn...