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Like three generations of Bowleses (all named Sam) before him, shrewd Sherman runs the venerable Springfield Republican (est. 1824, now the weakest in his four-paper monopoly). Last week the Republican and its sisters, the morning & evening Union and the Daily News, were shut up tight, and Springfield (pop. 150,000) was without a daily for the first time in 102 years. Cause: a squabble over a hiring clause which kept Bowles and the International Typographical Union from signing a contract...
After being envised and cerebrally malleated by 1.5 nofer trunnions [TIME, April 15] from a matitudinative 0451 GMT to an epinocturnal-proximate 1155 EST, I felt the need of a spirianimating filliperative and therefore submersinized my hypersensinate endoderm in a 5% fizzionate bicarboalkali-nating Cepsy-Pola...
Moscow prepared this week for its gay est Easter since the Bolshevik revolution.† New bells and bells long silent will ring out from the gilt onion domes of the city's churches, whose fresh paint will be ornamented with red and white flowers, hyacinths, roses and lilacs. For paskha and koulich, the elaborate cakes which, with colored eggs, are taken to the churches to be blessed on Easter eve, white flour can be bought with ordinary ration coupons. (Nonbelievers also rushed for white flour to make festive cakes for Red May Day, highpoint of Communism's liturgical...
Paris was Paris again. Bejeweled blondes and their bejowled escorts were swarming, last week, to the Folies-Bergère's first new revue since the war began. Called C'est de la Folie (It's Madness), this latest mounting of a spectacle that has more tourist appeal than the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower was decidedly up to snuff. It was so glamorously dressed and undressed by turns that the critics slid right over its dull tunes and dreary gags to write rave reviews...
...much sex as sumptuousness that made C'est de la Folie a smash hit. In threadbare postwar France, Producer Paul Derval had staged a revue that made many Broadway productions look like sideshows. The quantity of material used for the 1,200 costumes could be measured in miles, and quality surpassed quantity...