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Eusebio Kino was born in the village of Segno, in the Tyrolese Alps, probably on Aug. 10, 1645. Educated in the Jesuit College at Trent, he became a member of the Order in 1665, studied at Ingolstadt, became a mathematician and cartographer, planned to become a missionary to China. Traveling by way of Genoa to Spain, Kino was ordered to Mexico, shipwrecked, studied the great comet of 1680, began a long correspondence with the devout Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept. 25, 1681. He died 30 years later in northwestern Mexico after having...
...Alan Trent (Fredric March), Kitty Vane (Merle Oberon) and Gerald Shannon (Herbert Marshall) grow up together in England in time to have their already complicated emotional patterns tangled further by the War. Alan and Kitty love each other. Gerald also loves Kitty. Consequently, when he suspects Alan of spending a night in less fastidiously chosen company just before they sail for France, he goes into a rage. The result of this "out there" is a dangerous assignment for Alan, from which he fails to return. When Gerald gets back to England, he learns that the girl with whom Alan spent...
...John received a five-year jail sentence for "attempted murder"; in abetting the attempted suicide of an expectant mother and abetting on two other occasions illegal operations. Said Expectant-Mother Carol Leadbeater: "I still love John and want to marry him. He did not throw me into the River Trent! No such thing...
THIS WAS IVOR TRENT-Claude Houghton-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A trick novel about a four-dimensional man who is a walking prophecy of some super-race of the future. Superman Ivor Trent has keener perceptions than most humans, and a way with women...
While the rhetorical defenses were booming like long-range guns from Washington, other defenders were down on the actual battleline. At Fayetteville, Ark., AAAssistant Director for Production D. P. Trent was telling farmers that AAA is not regimentation at all, that "the most regimental form of regimentation" was cheap grain prices, foreclosed mortgages. At Reno, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis cried that opponents of AAA had but one idea, the same idea which led to the Depression: to keep the Government from helping farmers. And, most indefatigable of all, was the generalissimo himself, Secretary Wallace. At Ruston, La., at Paducah...