Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...
Died. Salvatore Cortesi, 82, famed Italian journalist (who scooped the world on the death of Pope Leo XIII), for 29 years chief of the Rome Bureau of the Associated Press.† father of the New York Times's Rome Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi; in Florence...
From France: Young (35) Maurice Schumann is president of M.R.P. (Mouvement Républicain Populaire), the progressive party which attempts to translate into contemporary policy the principles of social justice enumerated by Pope Leo XIII. Before the war Schumann was a Paris journalist. From the time France fell until he landed in Normandy on Dday, Schumann was the nightly radio "spokesman of Free France." That gained him a reputation among French patriots second only to that of his chief, General Charles de Gaulle. Schumann's political popularity has grown while the General's has shrunk. One reason: Maurice...
...Fine Arts 7f, a survey course in American painting, completes the fatal trilogy in Group IV. To fill the serious gap in American literature offerings, Professor Murdock is repeating his course on the American novel in the nineteenth century, English 170c. But because it has been relegated to Group XIII, it will do those who are enrolled in Professor Mayo's History 67, American Biography, no good at all, for it, too, is in Group XIII...
...sets, all made during the 18th and 19th centuries, come from China, India, Morrocco, Germany, and France. One of the French sets, made in 1720, shows Oliver Cromwell and Louis XIII as opposing kings...