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...Changes. Moscow could no longer listen to the tale of the world. It was the heart of the tale. The Revolution once more made it the capital of Russia. Once more, the country's tyrants dwelt in the Kremlin. With the new masters came symbols of the age that produced them-factories (steel, machine tools, electric equipment, autos, locomotives). The Communist planners went to work, tore down whole sections, built new functional concrete palaces...
Kirkland and Leverett untangled in time to turn in 7:47 and 7:48 times respectively, and locker room speculation dwelt on the possibility of either House contesting the judge's decision not to step the race when the two shells became snarled...
Prewar dweller on the Riviera, he hoped to return "in about a year," meantime dwelt in Manhattan with handsome, Greek-born Wife Atalanta (the former Countess Atalanta Mercati), Son Michael John, Daughter Venetia. Now 50 and quite grey (but with wavy and slickly groomed hair), Glitterateur Arlen was trying to grow a stomach to earn the children's respect. Said he: "In my house everyone goes around nude ... so everyone peers at me, looking for the corporation. But it's not there...
DISPLACED GERMANS-"I am particularly concerned at this moment with reports reaching us of conditions under which the expulsion and exodus of Germans from new Poland have been carried out. Between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 persons dwelt in these regions before the war. . . . Enormous numbers are unaccounted for. Where have they gone and what is their fate? ... It is not impossible that tragedy on a prodigious scale is imposing itself behind the iron curtain which at present divides Europe in twain...
...ideals of war benighted, stupid, hideous; and find our tribute to those who wage it--when they wage it destructively enough--a worship of gods as false as the idols of savages." But he has in mind the wars fought by his ancestors, fought in the classic mould dwelt on by Kipling. Owen, indeed, later says, "I'd fight--any time--for Peace!" His motives are quite different from those of the modern conscientious objector...