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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ferdinand got the support of Russia's Nicholas II, after Stambolov had been conveniently hacked to death by an assassin. He promoted himself from prince to czar, later sealed his own regal fate by choosing Wilhelm's side in World War I. In 1918 he stole out of Sofia, leaving his throne to his son Boris...
...Last winter the man of nonviolence, Gandhi, died violently at the hands of an assassin. Last week the man of hate, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, at 71, died a natural death in Karachi, capital of the state he had founded. His devoted and equally fanatic sister, Fatima, was at his side; so was his daughter, Mrs. Dinah Wadia, whom he had disowned because she married a Parsee (as he had done before...
...ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle . . ."t Her job was, she knew, an enviable one -"An obvious side door to the Supreme Commander's mental apartment." But it had its unpleasant features: "There were some ridiculous (though hurtful) smears on my reputation." To clear up the record, Kay announced, she was "peeling off my traditional British reserve and stripping down to naked truth...
McCloskey clipped out a profile photograph of Moina which had been furnished by her family, and airbrushed the profile on the right side of his working model. On the left side he lettered in the explanatory legend: FOUNDER OF POPPY DAY. Then he dug up a Schultz's Seed Store catalogue and began looking for a poppy. "I don't particularly like the thing," he admitted...
...Steps. Strapping John Lardner was born on Chicago's South Side while his father was a sportwriter on the old Chicago Examiner. Of the Lardner boys,* only John has followed in his father's sport steps. He also seems to have inherited his father's ear for speech and tongue for humor. After a year at Harvard, he went to work on the Paris Herald, then spent three years on its parent paper in Manhattan, under City Editor Stanley Walker. He married the boss's secretary, Hazel Cannan, and became a sportwriter, and later war correspondent...