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...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...
...statesman. Pacelli was the obvious choice. His natural flair for diplomacy, coupled with the vast amount of training in practical politics that a cardinal must undergo, made him the best choice for the papacy at this particular hour. Besides holding the titular Archbishopric of Sardis, he was Papal Regent, as well as Secretary of State to the Holy See. In the last capacity especially he had served his church well...
...admit that he had made an embarrassing and belated discovery. A deeper search into genealogical records had uncovered the unfortunate fact that his maternal great-grandfather had been born a Jew and that he himself was thus one-eighth Jewish. After some necessary promptings by old Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Dr. Imredy resigned in a mood of self-immolation. Said he: "I held, and still hold, that legislation for the regulation of Jewish participation in the economic and cultural affairs of the country is a good thing for our fatherland. However, it is inconsistent that under such circumstances...
Summoned by Regent Horthy to succeed Dr. Imredy was 60-year-old Count Paul Teleki, Hungary's Boy Scout leader, a Catholic Transylvanian nobleman, an expert geographer and member of Britain's Royal Geographical Society. Notable it was that...
...Author. Like Henry James and Proust, whose craftsmanship and insight she more simply recalls, tall, shy, angular, 39-year-old Elizabeth Bowen belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent...