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...Edward, who became the Duke of Kent when his father died in a 1942 plane crash, watched with his sister Alexandra (see cut) a London parade of his mother's WRENS (Britannic WAVES). Sprucely dressed, the exquisite Marina's handsome elder son looked as though he had outgrown his interest in heaving pillows from Buckingham Palace balconies...
...time. Yet for ten years he was secretary general of the Congress party, three times its president and, next to the half-naked Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, the most powerful figure in India's political life. As a sensitive liberal and a world statesman, Nehru has outgrown the shadow of his overage Messiah. But Gandhi, self-willed, self-made symbol of the Hindu peasant, has clamped Nehru's feet to India. It was Nehru the disciple, not Nehru the internationalist, who returned once more to jail...
...blue granite head. Some Carmelites observed that the statue had looked more like Bufano than Bach anyhow. But Mayor Keith Evans was hopping mad. Said he: "It's an act of vandalism that would go over big in Nazi Germany, but I thought we'd outgrown such things here in Carmel...
...older Scouts and ex-Scouts who have outgrown dispatch and collection services, there is great demand from recruiting officers. Frank Knox wants the Sea Scouts to sign up for the Navy. Paul McNutt has asked them not to forget the Merchant Marine. Lieut. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold says that the newest Scout project of Air Scouts (15 years and older) who will receive ground and flight background training is "great news to the Army Air Corps...
...outgrown the A.V.G. The Army thought that it was no longer good business that some U.S. fighting men paid by the Chinese Government should get $600 a month plus a bonus of $500 per enemy plane downed. Pilots fighting for the U.S. get paid in the ungenerous Army & Navy scales. Perhaps more important: all A.V.G.'s battle-won know-how on the technique of destroying Japs was far too precious to keep concentrated in only three squadrons-it needed to be spread through the U.S. air forces...