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...number of readers when a picture of the 30th Anniversary Parade in Moscow (showing huge blown-up portraits of Russian leaders being carried above the marchers' heads) appeared opposite a full-page ad built around a picture of the big gasbag figures in Macy's famous Thanksgiving Day parade. We didn't, of course, plan it that...
Last week, the institute invited three more famous names to join its lighthouse of civilization. The three: Denmark's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Niels D. Bohr (who has been there once before), British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (who presumably will work on the last volumes of A Study of History) and Poet T. S. Eliot (St. Louis-born, but a British subject since 1927). The institute didn't ask them what they would do; it was satisfied to let grown-up minds continue growing...
Their purpose was noble; they themselves, with few exceptions, were unassuming. They drifted into Philadelphia one or two at a time, put up at the Indian Queen Hotel, got to the State House at 10 or 11 in the morning, and sat around in the famous room with its high windows, waiting for the other delegates. They arrived so slowly that the opening hour was changed from 11 to 1 p.m. On May 25, 1787, almost two weeks after the first delegates assembled, the Constitutional Convention held its first official session...
...bishop referred to a famous heroine of the Greek War of Independence in the 18203. After her husband was captured and executed by the Turks, Lascarina Bouboulina replaced him as a sea raider, took command of his ship and effectively harried Turkish shipping in the Aegean...
...Fancy Free. Disney's famous fauna, plus Edgar Bergen and Dinah Shore (TIME...