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...Vale. At week's end, Umberto II-called the king of the May because he reigned only during that month-let it be known he would not attend the ceremonies inaugurating the First Italian Republic. His advisers, mostly Roman aristocrats, had polled their servants and country retainers, naively informed him "the common people" wanted their king. When he found out differently, Umberto, surprised and pained, lingered on in Rome in the hope that monarchist demonstrations would grow into a popular demand that he keep the crown. But his Queen Marie-José and their four children had already left...
...Winterset," a great Broadway success in the past, has strong appeal for Cambridge's socially conscious cognoscenti. The play's most optimistic statement, rendered by the venerable Esdros, played by John Simon proclaims that the best man can expect from this vale of sorrow is to be able o live with courage and die with dignity. Tying up this joyous philosophy in a neat bundle, the final curtain finds the innocent lovers, Mio and Miriamne, bulletriddled and lifeless, while the judge who sentenced the guiltless man to the chair, the real murderer, and a craven coward who shielded the killer...
...German-born Evangelical minister in Wright City, Mo., Reinie Niebuhr wanted to be a theologian from the time he was a small boy. Eventually he took his Bachelor of Divinity degree and his Master's at Vale and started his career with a $50-a-month pastorate in Detroit, his one & only parish. Since 1928 he has been in Manhattan, at Union, where he teaches ethics and philosophy and religion. A high point of Niebuhr's theological recognition came in 1939, when he was invited to deliver the esteemed Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh.* The lectures, published later...
...traveled to "Spouter's Corner" in Hyde Park (London's Union Square) to explain the theory and practice of house snatching. Before his speech, Cowley's Brighton boys gave a practical demonstration by "snatching" an empty house in London's Maida Vale for an Army gunner's wife and sick daughter. Said the Guv'nor grimly: the Vigilantes had put their fingers on one of Britain's aching nerves; from all over the country requests were pouring in for the formation of new Vigilante groups. In Clacton, another seaside resort, the town" council...
...Lampe describes himself as "the common garden variety Presbyterian preacher," and on most issues is a middle-of-the-roader. But after his election (on the second ballot), he made it clear that he saw eye to eye with his predecessor. Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, when it came to Roman Catholics in politics. "We are not fighting the Roman Catholics," said he, "but we have always fought for our liberties, and we will continue...