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TIME, Jan. 28, quotes Holy Man Brahmachari on U.S. marriages: "An Indian student, visiting an American cemetery, found a young woman seated by the side of the tomb, fanning it with her hand . . . [She explained] 'My husband and I loved each other, but when he died he made me promise that I would not remarry so long as his tomb was wet. I am fanning it so that it will become dry quickly and I can marry my current sweetheart...
...have heard that in America . . . women marry and divorce as many as three husbands a day, and there are some women who have had several hundred spouses each." On U.S. marriage: "An Indian student, visiting an American cemetery, found a young woman seated by the side of a tomb, fanning it with her hand. He asked her: 'Are you trying to emulate the famous love of the Hindu women for their husbands?' He explained that in India women think that their husbands are almost gods. The young woman said: 'My husband and I loved each other...
Today, thousands of admirers still pay homage at the tomb of Buffalo Bill on Lookout Mountain near Denver. But not one man in a hundred thousand knows the name of the remarkable, gnomelike promoter without whom Buffalo Bill would never have existed. The Great Rascal is Ned Buntline's first full-dress biography, and the galloping glitter of his career more than makes up for the limping prose in which Author Monaghan describes...
...blueprinted the Welfare State, 72-year-old Lord Beveridge, last week surveyed the brave new world of womb-to-tomb security and sadly reported: there has been "too much leveling down...
...womb (prenatal benefits to mothers), to birth (maternity hospitals), to infanthood (home assistants to young mothers), through school (free lunches), to jobs (vocational training), through sickness (next-to-free hospitals), through accidents (invalid insurance), through mental troubles (free psychiatric advice), through old 'age (old-age pensions), to the tomb (funeral benefits), to salvation, if possible (state-paid preachers...