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Down the Red Flag. March 1944 is the beginning of Togliatti's experiment in "respectable" revolution. Mussolini's regime is dead, and the Italian people squirm to the light-dazed, vaguely jubilant, cheering the U.S. as liberator. This is a unique opportunity for the West to establish a healthy Italian democracy. But the Communists see an opportunity, too. Many of them want to start a revolution immediately. Under the heavy March rains, Italy's mud seems like the very clay of history...
...Over My Dead Body. Historian Fuess made four years of history an Andover requirement, despite a trustee who said that U.S. history would be made compulsory only over his dead body. ("In three years," Fuess calmly recalls, "he "was in his grave, and American history was required of every senior.") Fuess argues that too many private-school graduates "feel that they have performed their civic duty when they have grudgingly paid their taxes and damned the Government...
Died. Anna Sage (real name: Ana Cumpanas), 58, the "woman in red" who 13 years ago pointed out Public Enemy John Dillinger to FBI men, who thereupon shot him dead; of a liver ailment; in Timisoara, Rumania, where she was deported in 1936 for running a Gary, Ind. brothel...
Holy Ghost or an ambassador from heaven to the world of the dead...
Heeding neither praise nor abuse, Memorial Hall stands placidly between Cambridge and Kirkland Streets dedicated to the memory of Civil War dead and the proposition that the grotesque can be successfully combined with the sublime. Unfortunately time has weakened the proposition. Today Mem's begargoyled exterior may arouse occasional wistful memories in old alumni hearts, but it is often considered little more than an antiquated obstacle in the path to New Lecture Hall-bound students...