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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitness to Rule. In 1939, when he assumed the throne of Baroda, the Maharaja's personal fortune was estimated at $300 million. Much of it was in precious stones, golden cannons, leopard-skin-lined Rolls-Royces, sacred elephants and palaces with alabaster corridors. In 1942 he approved legislation outlawing polygamy. Soon afterwards, at the race track in Madras, he met beautiful Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram. He promptly broke his new law by taking her for his wife although both she and he were already married. (Under Hindu law, the Princess could not divorce her husband; so she simply...
Masquerader. He spent six months preparing to "pass." To stain his skin, he tried walnut juice, iodine, Argyrol, even an infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
Died. Tommy Ryan (real name: Joseph Youngs), 78, prizefighter of the skin-tight glove era, who won fame in 1891 when he knocked out Danny Needham in the 76th round, retired as middleweight champion of the world in 1907; in Los Angeles...
...annual whirl of fall showings last week, socialites, fashion writers and buyers once again filled the Paris salons with silky ohs & ahs. They nodded and buzzed over Schiaparelli's jungle-inspired dinner dresses (trimmed with monkey fur and tiger skin), Maggy Rouff's deep-cut necklines, Jacques Path's tight, shimmering wedding gown (which was pinned together in a last-minute rush, came apart while harpists strummed an Ave Maria...
What makes The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most profound novel is that Henry Scobie, who seems to have one skin less than his tortured predecessors, actually has one more. In Brighton Rock (1938) Graham Greene drew a horrifying portrait of an adolescent Catholic named Pinkie, who was headed straight for damnation, and dimly, desperately knew it. In The Heart of the Matter he draws a man who is threatened with the same damnation, and sees it-apparently-much more clearly. Every man & woman, of whatever color, who has run into Scobie during his 15 years...