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Died. Muriel Draper, 65, longtime hostess to a never-ending series of causes, from Gurdjieffism to Communist frontery, mother of Dancer Paul Draper and sister-in-law of Monologuist Ruth Draper; after long illness; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...More Forceful." "He girded himself up like Galahad," says Gordon, "and told his sister-in-law that his wife wasn't in shape to see her." His sister-in-law was furious at first, but stayed away; his wife calmed down, and all was well. Dr. Gordon told the husband: "Unconsciously, your wife wanted you to be more forceful. By being so, you've learned to understand her better...
...Emperor's sister-in-law, Princess Chichibu, and 200 other Japanese and foreign dignitaries attended I.C.U.'s formal dedication ceremonies. Said I.C.U.'s first president, Zoologist Hachiro Yuasa, a third-generation Japanese Christian: "International Christian University is fundamentally a university of tomorrow . . . born out of the tragedies of war and dedicated to the proposition that truth and truth alone shall make men and nations free." Requirements for faculty members, as set by President Yuasa: firm scholarship and "dynamic" Christianity...
...Truman's private plane, the Independence. At 3 that same afternoon, the Queen's husband Philip went to London Airport to meet his aunt, the Queen of Sweden, and her royal husband Gustaf Adolf. Exiled Prince Paul of Yugoslavia came, and was whisked off by his sister-in-law the Duchess of Kent-just in time to avoid meeting Yugoslavia's Communist President Ribar. Francisco Franco's Foreign Minister got in from Lisbon just before the Pretender to the Spanish throne. The King and Queen of Denmark steamed into Harwich harbor under an escort of British...
...never played a game of baseball (or went to a dance, or had a date with a girl in his student days). He took enough interest in the outside world to get himself elected president of his class in its final year. In 1922 he married the sister-in-law of a faculty member, handsome Carmel Bentwich. He has three children: Hadassah, 28: now married to a mathematician and living in Connecticut; Ezra, 24, in his second year at Columbia University's School of International Affairs, and Emunah, 19, who is training for social work...