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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...son of a poor Scottish family who worked his way through Glasgow University, Orr started as a theological student but got interested in the new dogma of Darwinism instead. Soon Orr became convinced that food or the lack of it was the reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers...
...before the head of the family left for work, the police would come. There would be two plain-clothes men, with a list of names supplied by the Ministry of the Interior, and a uniformed cop. They would ask for the head of the family (or perhaps a grown son). All they would say in answer to questions was that the man was to come with them and that he should bring warm clothes. Before they left they would take the license and papers of his car, and they would type a sample of his typewriter...
...spiritual heir of a hundred proud Orthodox princes of Muscovy. Ivan's father, Prince Serge Obolensky, renounced his own Czarist title to become a U.S. citizen, eventually became manager of Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland Hotel. But even though Colonel Obolensky married an Episcopalian Astor, he brought his son up strictly in the Orthodox faith and hoped he would marry...
After the old Shah was deposed in 1941, and his son, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, ascended the throne, things were put on a more businesslike basis. A year ago, the young Shah hired Overseas Consultants, Inc., an eleven-member combine of U.S. industrial consultants and engineering firms,* to blueprint a seven-year plan to develop and industrialize Persia...
Born. To Cristobal Colon de Carvajal, 17th Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as ranking male descendant of Christopher Columbus, holds the hereditary title of Admiral of the Indies ; and former Anunciada Gorosabely Ramirez, 23, Madrid socialite: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Cristobal Colon, 17th Marquess of Jamaica. Weight...