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...Spanish philosopher living in Rome had completed the first volume of his autobiography. In the midst of a world war, both the U.S. State Department and the Vatican thought the book important enough to be smuggled out of Italy in a diplomatic pouch. When Persons and Places was published in the U.S. in 1944, it became the second book of Philosopher George Santayana to win the popular accolade of the Book-of-the-Month Club (the first: his only novel, The Last Puritan). Readers who couldn't be bribed to look at a book of philosophy were beguiled...
...Stonewall, Ga., milkman named H. T. Bradberry found a U.S. mail pouch containing $239,000 in currency lying beside the Atlanta & West Point Railroad tracks. He turned it over to postal authorities, who grabbed the sack, subjected him to gimlet-eyed questioning, finally told him he was free to leave-but did not utter one word of thanks...
...Magidoff why. In a long letter to the editors, she roundly denounced him as a U.S. spy. In his files, she wrote, she had found queries from McGraw-Hill, asking for information on underground factories, atomic developments and air transport. She said that the replies had gone by diplomatic pouch, to avoid the censors...
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...
...Clark Clifford. While Clifford beamed on his smiling boss, Mr. Truman turned a tanned and apparently carefree face toward the photographers; Clifford himself glistened with confidence and sunburn oil. Looking at the two of them, no one would suspect the gravity of the problems which arrived daily in the pouch from, Washington. No one would suspect, in fact, that the country appeared to be getting ready to dump the whole Truman Administration...