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...many Greeks this year, such quick fame is irresistible. Although elections are not due until March 5, there were 140 registered parties in Greece last week. There was the National Salvation Party, whose emblem was a skyscraper apartment house with St. Constantine and his mother, St. Helena, peeping out of the top window. Its platform: "Death and scorn to the wicked and incompetent who have brought Hellas to this plight." There was the Greek Orthodox Party, whose leader exhibited his own photograph in white pleated national dress, with the motto, "Love is the mother of happiness." Among the rest were...
...long, religious, didactic play, in verse. Yet it has the character of a psychological study, of drawing-room comedy, of domestic drama. It begins significantly with a cocktail party, emblem of all that is frivolous, ephemeral and heterogeneous in modern life. Characteristically, one guest is a stranger even to the host. The hostess is absent-called, her husband explains, to the sickbed of an aunt...
...great shakes in track at Indiana University, where he specialized in crosscountry and the longer distance races. Gradually he mastered the two-mile run. Then, since track promoters were hunting high & low for milers, he reluctantly tackled the shorter distance. Last week, wearing the winged-foot emblem of the New York Athletic Club, he toed the mark against six rivals in the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile...
...stage seemed set for another Communist show trial. In the dock sat the accused, ready to plead guilty and to confess. On the courtroom wall, over the grey head of the comrade president of the tribunal, hung the Red star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...
...convertible waiting at the curb. That he had designed too-along with all the Studebakers since the war-and thereby helped set a new fashion in automobiles. Loewy's own car had a few special flamboyant frills: a plastic tailfin, a tiny gold grilled air scoop above the emblem on the hood, recessed door handles, porthole windows and other eyecatchers to start pedestrians' tongues awagging with-the name of Studebaker− and Showman Loewy...