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...Pirates. "What sort of people are they," asks the Times, "the oldest of the Old Powers, the youngest-indeed the unborn-of the Newest Powers, starting to challenge Fate again?" There are, it believes, "one or two obvious facts" about themselves which the British tend to ignore: "their ruthlessness, for example. The English in America exterminated one race, the Red Indians, almost completely, and imported another race, the Negroes, as slaves, on whom they inflicted unspeakable brutalities. The English in Australia carried extermination even further ... a good deal of it by the simple use of arsenic, though there were other...
...does her face betray her fearful experiences. Before the Allies liberated her from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, her parents, husband and son had been killed by the Germans. And-according to some theologians-Dr. Perl has killed about 3,000 people herself. They were of undetermined sex: unborn children...
...unborn fashion magazine Kaleidoscope, publication day was a scant three months away. Ads were rolling in at $690 a page and up, and so was circulation at a charter rate of $18 a year. But at a point when most such "Projects X" would have gone through at least two dry runs, Kaleidoscope had not even produced a dummy. The publishers had not hired a single editorial staffer...
...over, women 5 ft. 10 in.), met in Chicago, filed their annual pleas for longer Pullman berths and higher telephone booths, crowned Marie Van Leuren, 6 ft. 1½ in., as "Queen of Height, 1948" (see cut). ¶An ad in the Miami Herald said: "Unborn child for adoption. Call 5-4955." ¶Washington's only legitimate theater, the National, closed its doors. Actors Equity Association had forbidden its members to play there after Aug. 1 unless the theater lifted its ban against selling seats to Negroes. The National refused. It will reopen next month as a movie house...
...Rome last week, Pope Pius XII reminded the International College of Surgeons that their moral duty is to spare unborn infants even at the risk of their mothers' lives. Surgeons, he said, should not heed "the understandable anguish of husbandly love" when faced with such a choice. "God alone is Lord of life...