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...Boston on Christmas Eve, 1939. More specifically, she was on exclusive Beacon Hill, where candles were flickering, where carolers were singing and where, by tradition, old families held open house. She met a wealthy, socially prominent young man named Richard Sears Jr. He thought she was wonderful. They were married two years later, while she was in an Eddie Dowling show in New York...
...Moscow, famed Cineproducer Sergei Eisenstein took to the short waves to charge Hollywood with preaching "hatred of humanity and the Soviet Union, that great beacon of peace." Soliloquized Eisenstein reproachfully: "Can one remain an artist and not be impelled to arrest the hand which is sowing death...
...appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George Seaver, Albert Schweitzer, the Man and His Mind (Harper; $3.75). Published last fortnight was a third book: Albert Schweitzer, an Anthology, edited by Charles R. Joy (Beacon Press & Harper...
...incessant roaring of the bulls. The men made nets of brush and in a few minutes scooped over 500 fish from the river. High in the mountains, the Indian guides did not build campfires, but set fire to a huge tree that blazed up in the darkness, a mighty beacon glaring over the apparent top of the world, thousands of miles from civilization. The wilderness shook the sense of reality...
...Beacon Light (Sun. 10 p.m., Mutual). The Grand Lodge of Masons breaks into radio to dramatize its campaign for rheumatic fever research. Guests: Walter Hampden, Reinald Werrenrath...