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...Blue-Papered Bedroom. Last week it was again time for gypsydom's traditional pilgrimage to Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a small fishing village in the wild Rhone delta, to pay homage to their patron Saint Sarah.t Once Romanies from all over the world came; last week, only the French gypsies were there. The others were unable to move across the world's new frontiers and new orders...
...vegetarianism. The book does indeed contain a number of things not to be taken too seriously; for instance, the absence of all lawyers in Utopia, the presence of women priests, the practice of euthanasia (which has made the members of the Euthanasia Society very stupidly claim More as a patron...
Like a man who had been bludgeoned, Gaitán fell, face down, and bloodstains widened on the sidewalk. A lottery vendor, standing in the doorway, dropped his book, grabbed the assassin and shouted: "This is the man." A café patron ran from another door, smashed a chair over the gunman's head...
Died. George Noble, Count Plunkett, 96, Irish literary and art patron, and fiery fighter for a free Eire; in Dublin. The bush-bearded, pouch-eyed papal count, first Sinn Fein candidate to be elected to the Irish Parliament (in 1917), served the new republic as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919-21) and Fine Arts...
Died. Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, 82, portly, jovial landowner (69,000 acres), sports patron, first of his line since 1787 to win his family's namesake horse race (with Sansovino in 1924; twice Secretary of State for War (1916-18, 1922-24); in Prescot, Lancashire, England...