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...newcomers won Douglas' ear. They were an interesting pair. Farmer, 51, a well-to-do corporation lawyer, an Episcopalian and a Yaleman, gave up his legal practice about five years ago, devoted himself to the cause of world government, is suing the U.S. Government for recovery of two-thirds of his income tax because the two-thirds are used for war purposes. Marshall, 50, a Roman Catholic and equally a crusader, mostly for liberal causes (against restrictive racial covenants in real-estate deals, for Negroes in the Los Angeles Bar Association, etc.), is described by his wife...
...Ralph H. Demmler, 48, of Pittsburgh, was finally cleared by Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin as a member of the Securities & Exchange Commission. He will take over the chairmanship. Son of a well-to-do family (Demmler Brothers Co., distributors of sheet-metal products), Ralph Demmler attended Allegheny College and the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1928, and became a specialist in corporate and banking law. No stranger to SEC procedure, Demmler worked with the commission on cases involving Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank and Trust Co. and the Duquesne Light Co., handled...
Married. Princess Ragnhild of Norway, 22, shy brunette eldest daughter of Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Märtha; and Erling Svenn Lorentzen, 30, a commoner, well-to-do shipping executive and a hero of the Norwegian underground during World War II; in a simple ceremony attended by European royalty (including Britain's Princess Margaret) and Lorentzen's wartime comrades; in Asker Church near Oslo...
Married. Armi Kuusela, 18, Finland's blonde, blue-eyed winner of last year's "Miss Universe" contest; and Virgilio Hilario, 25, well-to-do Filipino real-estate heir; in Tokyo...
...Price of Anchovies. A well-to-do villager had already broken off his son's engagement with Mena, the eldest Malavoglia girl; the shipwright now ordered his daughter to stop seeing young 'Ntoni, Mena's brother. Grandfather 'Ntoni only drove the fishing harder. The neighbors said he was "hunting for trouble with a candlestick." One night he found it. The boom fell in a bad storm and struck his head. 'Ntoni and Alessi, his little brother, barely got the boat ashore; Grandfather 'Ntoni was laid up for months...