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...Archbishop Firmian for his nephew, it became the property during the 'twenties of Germany's famous producer, Max Reinhardt. After the establishment of the Salzburg Festival as a yearly event, Leopoldskron became the center of planning for the festivals and, as Reinhardt's home, the cultural beacon of the city. Reinhardt fled to America before the Nazis, who used the castle for themselves, and with Reinhardt's subsequent death and the war's-end decay, Leopoldskron had lost its reason for existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salzburg Seminar Thriving On Zeal in Wartorn Austria | 8/15/1947 | See Source »

...Beacon in a Fog. While most other Protestant publications were displaying their intellectual poverty either by clinging stubbornly to dogma or retreating headlong before the advance of secularism, the Christian Century remained stimulating and profound; it eventually became a beacon of level-headedness in a fog of misty thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Man of the Century | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...couple will reside on Beacon Street, next to the Fox and Hounds Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lanford Awaits Belle | 5/27/1947 | See Source »

...Boston, Beacon Hill matrons sat themselves down on their historic redbrick sidewalks, in a last-ditch fight to prevent city workers from ripping them up, replacing them with concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...World Friendship Council (an organization devoted to amity of moppets everywhere). The Council in turn got the rock from Charles Henry Davis, a Cape Cod millionaire and idea man, last heard of when he proposed that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill, with a beacon in the form of a lighted cigar, be erected at Dover (TIME, July 29). When Donor Davis heard of the mixed reception awaiting his rock in New York, he promptly ordered workmen to dump it off its trailer truck (see cut). It is now resting in a field near Yarmouth, awaiting a decision from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Embarrassing | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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