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THIS is a collection of 15 short stories by the New York Times' correspondent in Moscow, already popularly known as an author from his book "I Write As I Please," published during the recent epidemic of journalistic baring-of-the-breast. It is worth while for two reasons: first, it is one of a series of low-priced books published in paper covers, and attempting to present good books cheaply; second, Duranty as an acute observer of the Great Experiment in Russia since 1920 is able to comment interestingly on the intimate effects of this experiment on the people over...
Carved out of black diorite, the statue shows Gudea, an ancient ruler in Southern Babylonia, seated on a stool, clasping his hands over his breast...
...frogs and periwinkles fall to earth in rainstorms, why eels appear in landlocked water. What about the swan which mysteriously appeared in Central Park after the celebrated Dorothy Arnold mysteriously disappeared? What about the Chippewa Indian who prayed for food for his child, promptly drew milk from his breast...
...miraculously disappeared upon his advent. But in Piacenza he fell ill himself, was expelled to a forest where he would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe God had given Roch the power of healing the plague-stricken, and he was canonized even before the city of Constance was delivered from cholera in 1414 by prayers for his intercession. Last week brought the feast (Aug. 16) of St. Roch...
Like the League of Nations in its earlier days, the World Conference was more notable for what it was than for what it did. In many of its pronouncements there was the sort of something-must-be-done breast-beating which appears annually at U. S. denominational conferences. Yet in the reports it adopted the conference came near its goal, which was to present to the world a series of basic, minimum propositions on which all Protestantism could agree. These had been threshed out, in French, English and German, at daily meetings of five sections of the conference, comparatively small...