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...question: What is the meaning of man? As a youth, he took up archeology, looking for the meaning among dead civilizations. Later he sought the answer in revolution, fought alongside the Communists in China and Spain. In 1939, he broke with the Communists, and after World War II, became right-hand man to right-wing General Charles de Gaulle. In his monumental book, The Voices of Silence, published in the U.S. last year (TIME, Nov. 23), Malraux seemed at last to have found his answer in art. Now, in a thoughtful essay in the French Catholic monthly, Etudes, Philosophy Professor...
Cesare, Lucrezia's brother, was the Pope's right-hand man in these endeavors. With his father's connivance, he poisoned, assassinated and generaled his way, temporarily, to supreme power in central Italy.- Lucrezia, as the young and marriageable member of ,the family, became a handy and well-used device in the family's dynastic ambitions...
Cecil Hartley gave his offspring two names, Daniel Kaye for the partner on the right, and Donald Ray for the one on the left. Clergymen in Indianapolis told reporters that with two brains and two hearts it must have two personalities and therefore should have double baptism. Meanwhile, doctors at Riley Hospital concentrated on keeping it alive, using oxygen because the right-hand member has poor circulation. This side also has a harelip and a poorer appetite. Surgery, such as separated the Brodie twins, appears impossible because there is only one set of organs below the chest...
...unlistening ears. While Foreign Minister Bidault and Premier Laniel were in Bermuda, another party of nine Frenchman, led by a Gaullist deputy named Pierre Lebon, was in Warsaw. Among them: ex-Premier Daladier and Jacques Soustelle, a youngish (41) anthropologist who is one of De Gaulle's right-hand men. They had come, at Polish Communist invitation and in a Polish Communist plane, to see for themselves the Oder-Neisse Line, which separates Poland and East Germany. Their visit, of course, called attention to the fact that Germans of all non-Communist parties hope to regain the territory taken...
...nothing) Burke. A quiet, round-faced lawyer, 54-year-old Tom Burke has been in public office during much of his life. In 1941 Lausche, then mayor, appointed him Cleveland's law director, the No. 2 position in the city government. He became Lausche's right-hand man, stepped up to the Mayor's chair in 1945, after Lausche was elected governor. Burke, popular and able, has been mayor ever since, winning four elections to two-year terms. Last month, in Montreal, Burke was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (succeeding Chicago's Mayor...