Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate organization-and had since been calming Democrats by claiming that newsmen had distorted his words. But Frank Lausche, a master at appearing both things to both parties, was equal to the occasion. "I am," he replied, "a Democrat second and an American first. I will never hesitate to cross party lines when I think it will serve my country best...
...most impressive witness to his independence was burly Randolph himself. Under cross-examination by Defense Barrister Gilbert Paull, he admitted readily that he had launched a campaign against the press, including The People, with a speech in 1953. "Was it not offensive?" asked the lawyer. Snapped Randolph: "Yes, it was meant...
...minor Prussian court sculptor, Johann Gottfried Schadow. But it caught the admiring eye of Napoleon as he rode in triumph through the gate in 1806, and the conqueror ordered it carted off to Paris. Brought back again by the Prussians in 1815 (when it acquired an iron cross surrounded by an oak leaf topped by an eagle), it remained in place until Russian artillery knocked it to scrap during the Battle of Berlin in World...
COUNT LUNA, by Alexander Lerne/-Holenla (252 pp.; Criferion; $4), cross-pollinates Poe and Kafka to tell two Gothic tales of the occult. The title tale, Count Luna, is set in present-day Vienna. Alexander Jessiersky, frayed scion of a shoddy aristocratic line, fears that a penniless Count Luna whom he has uninten tionally wronged will return from a concentration camp grave to exact revenge. One night he hears footsteps on the floor above his palace study, storms out and plunges a pair of scissors repeatedly into the fleeing, shadowy figure of the intruder -only to discover that...
Yale retained its Ivy League lead Saturday by trouncing Cornell, 25 to 7, while Penn moved into third place by beating Brown, 14 to 7, in a third Ivy game. Princeton defeated Colgate, 28 to 20, while Dartmouth tied Holy Cross...