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...Georgia would never have thrown off this feudal custom had it not been for its young (37) and energetic Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall. Having spent two years ridding his state of the influences left by gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, Governor Arnall jumped into the poll-tax battle with both feet...
Three Asterisks. The Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, rebutted Pravda's criticism of Pope Pius XII's Christmas statement of Vatican policy (TIME, Jan. 8). The rebuttal itself was not notable, but its tone was: it departed from L'Osservatore's custom by referring to Marshal Stalin by name and title in an editorial. It called Russia a "great country," and drew a friendly parallel between the Pope's and Stalin's ways of dealing with some matters. The editorial concluded with three asterisks, the signature of L'Osservatore...
Rebecca (adapted from her novel by Daphne du Maurier; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings) reversed U.S. theatrical custom in two ways: the novel was made into a play after it had been made into a movie, and went to Broadway after it had toured the country. Unfortunately, its reverses do not stop there. On the stage, the well-known tale of the haunting influence of Maxim de Winter's dead first wife on himself (Bramwell Fletcher), his new bride (Diana Barrymore), his grim housekeeper (Florence Reed) and his great oppressive house casts only a faint and fitful spell...
...Barbarous Custom." Signatures on the documents were scarcely dry before a new difference arose. ELAS was holding thousands of Greek civilians as hostages. They would be held, said ELAS leaders, against the release of sympathizers of their movement arrested by the Greek Government in Athens...
Said Regent Archbishop Damaskinos: "I am profoundly shocked." In London, the British Government charged ELAS with practicing a "barbarous custom condemned by international...