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...hope that it may explain why Mary is still potent to make historians and poets weep. She was Queen of Scotland a few days after birth, Queen of France at 18, true Queen of England according to Catholic Europe. She was tall, slim, dark, with an oval, plump-cheeked face like Film Actress Diana Wynyard's. She had beauty, brains, charm that she never turned off. She had little Scots patriotism, no bigotry, a great gift for hatred and revenge, a warm and grateful heart. The Scots, intent on being Protestants, were suspicious of her. England's Elizabeth...
...picture did not resolve. The observed rate of recession of the farthest visible parts was so fast (12,000 to 15,000 mi. per sec.) that it made the universe seem unreasonably young. Last week, backed by intricate mathematics and Harvard Observatory's mass of photometric records, plump, bespectacled Abbé Lemaitre and his collaborator, Harvard's sprightly, peripatetic Astronomer Harlow Shapley, stepped forth at Cambridge with the shrapnel universe dramatically modified into a soapsuds universe...
...arrest of plump "Baron" Oscar Merrill Hartzell, who collected nearly $1,300,000 in 13 years from gullible Mid-western aspirants to the non-existent $22,000,000,000 estate of Sir Francis Drake, famed Elizabethan mariner (TIME. Jan. 23, Feb. 27): conviction on a charge of using the mails to defraud, sentence of ten years in jail, fine of $2.000; in Sioux City, Iowa...
Created by the President last summer, D. P. I. was operating last week in a six-room office in the huge Department of Commerce Building. At its head was Katherine C. Blackburn, a dark, plump, capable woman who has been a professional newsreader and factfinder for 14 years. She clipped papers for President Taft, did research work at the World Economic Conference for William Christian Bullitt, recently functioned as factfinder to Professor Raymond Moley. Miss Blackburn has a smoothly organized staff of 17 assistants to scissor, file and index clips from 400 or more U. S. newspapers. She does most...
...Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air." Every reader of James Joyce's famed Ulysses* will recognize this opening passage. But many Ulysses readers are not aware that Malachi ("Buck") Mulligan represents a real person, with other claims to fame besides being a minor character in Joyce's Dublin epic. Renowned as "the wildest wit in Ireland." a doctor, a Senator, an air pilot. Oliver St. John Gogarty...