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...natural fortress. Colonel Lawrence K. ("Red") White, of the 148th, saw no hope of saving most of Manila's famous buildings. Where the Japs had artillery, he would use artillery, refusing to send unsupported infantry against guns. In one church, two machine guns were found beneath the altar. The 148th took heavy casualties: ambulances clanged monotonously in & out of the area...
Solemnly, cautiously, as befits those who come out of the past into the present, the 160-odd delegates filed into Moscow's onion-domed, 17th-Century Sokolniki Church. Wearing the stiff scarlet and gold mantles and the high, crownlike klobuka, the bearded archbishops took their places before the altar. They joined with the clerical and lay delegates from every diocese in the Soviet Union and from the branches of Russian Orthodoxy abroad, in a brief prayer, the moleben: "God bless this act, send down Thy spirit...
...Cockles has the record so far in Cowie Hall dates; practically every night, we'd say. Herb Wellings, in addition to his War Production ad libs, is getting other ideas also. They say that he may beat John White to the altar afrter...
...plot, like something out of Arabian Nights, takes Robert Hutton, amorous Yale man in "Janie," rapidly from New Guinea, to the Hollywood canteen, the arms of Joan Leslie, and almost the altar, before a troop train arrives to carry him off. The story's main excuse is to try to form a link between the musicalia, which appear every ten minutes. Like "Thank Your Lucky Stars" and "Thousands Cheer," this movie is just an unoriginal variation on the star parade theme...
...newald Altar Screen was important enough to be mentioned in the Versailles Treaty: the Germans tried to keep it in Munich after the war, but the peacemakers of 1919 ordered its return to Alsace. Between wars, it was kept in the Colmar Museum. Last week, when the bare facts of Captain Ross's discovery first became known, nobody knew or even tried to guess why the Nazis left such a treasure behind when they were being pushed out of Alsace...