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...Died. Nicholai Radescu, 77, exiled former Prime Minister of Rumania; in New York City. Freed from a Nazi prison, General Radescu signed the 1944 pact switching Rumania from the Axis to the Allies, headed the first (and last) democratic, postLiberation government, was ousted after a bloodily successful Communist-led uprising in March 1945, narrowly escaped assassination and came to the U.S., where he formed a Free Rumanian committee to work for his country's liberation...
...Nicholai F. Wessell, formerly personnel director of the Factory Mutual Engineering division, has been appointed University associate director of personnel, it was announced yesterday...
...Church swung into action. Bishop Nicholai of Belgrade preached a sermon against capitulation. Patriarch Gavrilo Dozitch of the Serbian Orthodox Church went to the White Palace to warn Prince Paul against giving the Germans power over the Church. Bishop Valerian Pribichevitch, brother of the late great Patriot Svetozar Pribichevitch, telegraphed his resignation to the Regent; it would become effective when Yugoslavia signed with Germany...
...Fish may now by frozen stiff at a temperature of -20 degrees centigrade, left in that condition for several hours, and then brought back to life as spry as ever by a little warm water," declares Dr. Nicholai Borodin, curater of fishes at the Peabody Museum. When the fish is frozen, it goes into a state which corresponds very much to that of an animal's hibernation, except that the fish at this time does not breathe at all, but is kept alive by some unknown vital force. How long the fish can be kept alive in a frozen state...
...when Baron Wrangel found himself failing in health, he offered the allegiance of his "White Knights" unreservedly to the Grand Duke Nicholai and himself retired to live quietly in Brussels. There he has been attended by only a few faithful followers, among them the Russian Archpriest who, last week, administered to him last rites...