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Announcer Ed Stevens hooked his mike to a portable transmitter and walked to the river's edge. Then he began his floe-by-floe report. Wet snow had been melting as it fell and, about midafternoon, sun stabbed through the overcast. Behind Stevens' voice, listeners heard the babble of some 250 sourdoughs and Indians excitedly looking for signs of the breakup. Suddenly, like a carrier flight deck in heavy seas, the great mass of ice heaved and fell. A finger of water slithered across the ice and a moment later jagged, crashing floes crunched downstream. No radio audience...
...fugitive from Selective Service tried to skip across an ice floe, fell in. Pursuing FBI men fished...
...assassin escaped. Near Helsinki's airport a Finn, armed with a flatiron, attacked a Russian soldier. The Finn was arrested. At the same airport, a few days later, were found the murdered bodies of two Red Army officers. The shattered country was heaving and grinding like an ice floe...
Saturday afternoon Captain Sherm Gray and Sophomore Harry Parkman played before a bankside gallery when the floe on which they were working broke loose and slowly swirled downstream with its entourage of embryo Eilzas. Heartened by Sunday's warmth, Arthur, who drives the University launch, and Carl, pilot of the Harvey Love Freshman special, set out to saw a space in which to set down, the float stages yesterday morning...
...defeatism but, according to Professor Horton, "of courage, hope and active service of God and man - service which necessarily refuses to define its objectives very far in advance, since the whole surface of European life is cracking and sinking under foot like a thawing ice floe, but which receives its orders day by day from God, who alone knows what will be required of his servants by tomorrow!" Since the Russian Orthodox Church, before the War, was deepest bogged in reaction, its recent recovery has been the most spectacular, under the leadership of Nicholas Berdyaev and Dean Sergius Bulgakov...