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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece of Communist propaganda recently miscarried. Even Italian Communists couldn't stomach the stick sentimentality of a Russian propaganda movie. It showed a Russian airman ready to die in glory while Comrade Stalin, over the radio, urged him to live on. Interrupted Italian comrades" We want Walt Disney...
According to legend in Lebanon, long ago a defeated army was driven into a cave in the valley of Antelias and walled up to die of starvation. The man who breaks into the cave, says the legend, will find whitened skeletons like the valley full of dry bones that the Lord showed the Prophet Ezekiel...
...careful religious education, says Mrs. Chaplin, should help a child to express church doctrine in his own words. She quotes Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's account of a 14-year-old boy's answer to the question: "Why did Jesus have to die?" Replied the youngster...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...
Most college hammer throwers figure they'll die happy if they hit 160 feet. The recognized world's record is 193 feet, the American record 189 feet, 7 1/2 inches, and the National collegiate record 183 feet, 10 inches. Felton, a six foot, 22-year-old Senior from Philadelphia, has thrown better than 180 feet twice this spring and hasn't fallen below...