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...made his stately progress toward his 80th birthday. Birthday gifts poured into 10 Downing Street; his birthday fund passed $300,000 and was still rising. Debrett's editor rummaged through Churchill's female ancestry and announced happily that Churchill was of blood royal, through Henry VII, and therefore a descendant of Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror. Parliament itself bustled over preparations for the unprecedented ceremony this week in the great hall which King William Rufus began in 1097. There Churchill will be presented with an ornate memorial volume containing the signatures of all members...
...Oslo to accept his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 79, saintly medical missionary of French Equatorial Africa, stood in a shiny old black suit and eloquently pointed a way to peace for distinguished listeners, including Norway's King Haakon VII. His message: man can abolish war only through a revival of the same ethical spirit which lifted Europe from the Dark Ages. Said Schweitzer: "Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature...
GroupExamination Date I Thursday, January 27 II Wednesday, January 26 III Monday, January 24 IV Friday, January 28 V Friday, January 21 VI Saturday, January 29 VII Wednesday, January 19 VIII Thursday, January 27 IX Thursday, January 27 X Saturday, January 22 XI Monday, January 31 XII Thursday, January 20 XIII Tuesday, January 25 XIV Wednesday, January 19 XV Saturday, January 22 XVI Saturday, January 22 XVII Saturday, January 29 XVIII Saturday, January...
...STUDY OF HISTORY, Vols. VII-X (2,685 pp.)-Arnold J. Toynbee-Oxford...
...decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...