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Klement Gottwald's Red-style Horatio Alger story had taken him from a Moravian carpenter's shop to Hradcany Castle and power over all Czechoslovakia. Last week his body lay in state in the castle's mirrored Spanish Hall, where Habsburgs had danced in a brighter time. The foreign source of his climb to power was never more apparent than in his funeral: the bands played Russian music; the troops used the Russian parade step and carried Russian machine pistols. The most notable mourners were Russia's Marshal Bulganin and Red China's Chou Enlai...
Velde may learn-but his two bad slips indicate that he is not one of the FBI's brighter products. A Congressman who thinks he is going to investigate churches needs to pound the beat a while before he gets promoted to the plain-clothes squad...
...passage of time dulls most literary reputations, but George Orwell's keeps getting brighter. His publishers, in the three years since his death, have been reduced to pasting together scraps of his journalism, yet each collection seems almost as timely as if written yesterday...
...count was made of people blinded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; perhaps few people were looking into the sky at the right moment. If modern bombs attract more sightseers, they will blind them at greater distances than four miles, for they are far brighter than the nominal bombs were. Hydrogen bombs, say Drs. Rose and Buettner, will probably blind from as far away as they can be seen...
Sunday came & went as usual: poetry readers cautiously controlling their hands, villagers in their Sunday best, and news vendors-in violation of the law against "public crying,"-shouting: "Sunday papers! Brighter Sunday gone...