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...bells tolled, the black-draped drums acknowledged and echoed the news. King George VI was dead, and a 25-year-old young woman ascended the throne of a realm that encompasses a quarter of the globe and a fourth of its inhabitants...
...dryly witty talker on such topics as 19th century literature. Largely self-taught, he was graduated from Manhattan's DeWitt Clinton High School and worked on several magazines and dailies as a reporter, ad manager and editor before he was spotted by Hearst's Prince of the Realm, Arthur Brisbane, who took him on as his assistant. At 31, Newsman Lindner was sent to Detroit to run the ailing Detroit Times, which Hearst had just bought. Lindner borrowed money from the bank to meet his first payroll, turned the Times into a moneymaker. He was moved...
...Council's move is a last-ditch affair; by taking such a position, Council members have risked an anti-climax that may kill the controversy for good. We hope that, better versed in Sociology, they will reverse last Monday's vote and return to the dull but more effective realm of proper channels...
Once upon a time, in a mountainous land between Baghdad and the Sea of Caviar, there lived a nobleman. This nobleman, after a lifetime of carping at the way the kingdom was run, became Chief Minister of the realm. In a few months he had the whole world hanging on his words and deeds, his jokes, his tears, his tantrums. Behind his grotesque antics lay great issues of peace or war, progress or decline, which would affect many lands far beyond his mountains...
...some other superstitions of the irreligious: that religious ideals are impractical, that religion is an escape mechanism, that religion is necessarily at odds with fact and reason. His reply: "To say that we believe in God is something neither based on scientific evidence nor contrary to it . . . The realm of religious faith is the realm of values...