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Franklin Roosevelt's conclusion seemed a thunder-stealing echo of Isolationist Charles Lindbergh, who last fortnight begged the U. S. to make itself a citadel of democracy. Said the President: "Fate seems now to compel us to ... maintain in the western world a citadel wherein . . . civilization may be kept alive...
President James B. Conant urged the country to keep cool despite the war and to remain the "last citadel" of reason and the home of scholarship, when he delivered an address yesterday morning at the Chapel Service in Harvard Memorial Church...
When the first World War broke over Europe in 1914, the physicists at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, famed citadel of pure science, scattered to Government Service, as they will doubtless do in 1939. But during the first World War the late revered Lord Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's internal structure, stuck to his post. He was on the verge of splitting the atom. When a committee of scientists sought his help on a method for submarine detection, he put them off by saying that if he could prove atomic disintegration it would be more important...
...snarls like Clark Gable) and Valerie Hobson (who looks and loves like Loretta Young) pout and make up in proper Hollywood style. But the show-stealing star of Clouds over Europe is bland, slightly-potty, all-round Actor Ralph Richardson (Things to Come, The Divorce of Lady X, The Citadel...
Once the visitors were ashore, the correspondents rushed around ferreting out interesting facts about their private arrangements. Plump, ebullient Dixie Tighe of the Philadelphia Record, and New York Post plunged even deeper into the Royal private life, cabled her papers that at Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss...