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Because the British said so, nearly everybody suddenly believed that Adolf Hitler was really dead. A British Army Intelligence report, released last week, said that Hitler married his mistress, blond Eva Braun, on April 29, shot himself the next day after a macabre wedding feast in the ruins of falling Berlin...
...doctrine of "art for art's sake" has had rough sledding in Mexico. With Mexicans, it has been religious or social art that counts. Confectioners mold candy into shapes of skulls and flowers for feast-day celebrations. Muralists line public buildings with vehement histories of oppression and revolution. For the rest, nudes, still lifes, etc. were considered mere frilly decoration. In 1922 Mexico's Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors put the Mexican doctrine in writing, publicly repudiated "art for art's sake," and pledged themselves to paint murals "for the people." Among signers were Mexico...
...rangers who search Maine's woods for lost persons; it increased one liquor inspector's salary from $33 to $39 a week; and approved various appointments of notaries public and justices of the peace. The meeting lasted an hour. Then the Council sat down to a feast of deer liver, bear steak and biscuits...
...felt that both labor and ownership, in industries and services which touched the daily lives of almost every citizen, should put the interest of all the U.S. at feast as high as their own interests. He hoped, without much confidence, that labor disputants could be made to realize their responsibility to the public...
Last week the Church decided that things had gone far enough. The Most Reverend Joseph Aldee Desmarais, Bishop of Amos (Quebec) diocese, issued a bluntly worded circular. Appropriately, it was distributed on the Day of the Feast of St. Francis...