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...churches which once served Moscow are functioning today, although the city's population has risen from 2,000,000 to 2,800,000 since the capital of Russia moved thither from Petrograd. According to Trud these 40 churches worked clear around the clock last Easter, holding services in three shifts attended by so many citizens of Moscow that not only the churches themselves but their courtyards were packjammed with Easter worshippers...
...that now pass through Newark. Referring to North Beach Airport's completion-its start happily coincides with Fiorello LaGuardia's campaign for re-election-the Mayor of New York, with marked emphasis on the "I" confidently boomed. "Colonel Somervell and I will open it at Easter 1939, in time for the World's Fair." As an afterthought he added-"Why doesn't some smart guy build a hotel here...
...Soviet Government negotiated a deal with the versatile Hammers. They were forbidden to export their rubles, but they might buy with their profits antique furniture, jewels, paintings, etc. There soon appeared in Manhattan a swank emporium known as the Hammer Galleries, its showcases filled with Sevres vases, jeweled Easter eggs, enameled cups and other bourgeois impedimenta of Tsarist nobility. Knowing the political sympathies of its likeliest customer, the Hammer Galleries plasters its walls with double eagles and other imperial symbols...
Judging by the pranks of its pastors, Philadelphia is the most exhilarating vineyard in which a U. S. man of God may labor. There, Rev. Zed Copp, Presbyterian, crusades hotly against Santa Claus, Easter bunnies and the Stork, while spending his spare time transcribing...
...Brooklyn where his twin 17-year-old sons Robert and Lawrence plan for Princeton in September and his daughter Marjory, 11, practices the piano under her musical mother's eye, Lawyer Liebowitz hurried to the defense of his latest notorious client. Sculptor Robert Irwin, accused of the Easter-Sunday murder of beauteous Veronica Gedeon et al. (TIME, July...